Moving with his father, by 15 he was working in Fort Wayne, Indiana at the Hobby House Restaurant owned by the Clauss family.

When his father prepared to move again, Dave decided to stay in Fort Wayne, dropping out of high school to work full-time at the restaurant.

After his discharge in 1953, Thomas returned to Fort Wayne and the Hobby House.

In the mid-1950s, Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Col. Harland Sanders came to Fort Wayne to find restaurateurs with established businesses in order to try to sell KFC franchises to them.

D. Bayless Lodge No. 359 Fort Wayne, Indiana, and a member of the Shriners ; he received the honorary 33rd degree in 1995.

Category: People from Fort Wayne, Indiana

Category: People from Fort Wayne, Indiana

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* 1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The Hawks shifted from " Tri-Cities " ( the area now known as the Quad Cities ) to Milwaukee ( in 1951 ) and then to St. Louis, Missouri ( in 1955 ); the Royals from Rochester, New York to Cincinnati ( in 1957 ); and the Pistons from Fort Wayne, Indiana to Detroit ( in 1957 ).

* 1790 – Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.

* 1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.

Draining into Lake Erie, the Maumee River was not necessarily well-suited for large ships, but it did provide an easy connection to Indiana's Fort Wayne.

" The dispute prompted the family to move again, to Fort Wayne, and convert to the Presbyterian church.

In Fort Wayne, Marshall attended high school, graduating in 1869.

** Vernon Jordan is shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt in Fort Wayne, Indiana by Joseph Paul Franklin ( the first major news story for CNN ).

* Fort Wayne Female College is founded ; it will later be renamed Taylor University.

The defense group, centered around Fort Wayne, IN, remained independent under the Magnavox Electronic Systems name, first under Philips and later in the Carlyle Group, until it was acquired by Hughes Electronics in 1995.

The remainder of the operations now falls under Raytheon's Network Centric Systems in Fort Wayne, IN.

Whistler was replaced by Captain Nathan Heald, who had been stationed at Fort Wayne, Indiana.

* S. C. A. N, Stop Child Abuse and Neglect, non-for profit organization based in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Lombard was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

She spent her early childhood in Fort Wayne, near the St. Mary's River.

Lombard's Fort Wayne childhood home has been designated a historic landmark.

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It was originally founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana as the Fort Wayne ( Zollner ) Pistons as a member of the National Basketball League in 1941, where they won two championships.

The franchise was founded as the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, a National Basketball League ( NBL ) team, playing in the gym of North Side High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

* Fred Zollner, founder of Fort Wayne Pistons ( now Detroit )

The middle years saw the emergence of the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, who were later instrumental in the survival of the NBA during its infancy.

They lost to Oshkosh in the 1941 finals, beat Fort Wayne for the title in 1943, but lost to the Zollner Pistons in 1944 and 1945.

Three teams joined the NBA in 1948: the Minneapolis Lakers ( now the Los Angeles Lakers ), the Rochester Royals ( now the Sacramento Kings ), and the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons ( now the Detroit Pistons ).

* Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons ( 1941 – 48 )*

* Oshkosh All-Stars win two games to one over the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons

* Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons win three games to none over the Sheboygan Redskins

* Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons win three games to two over the Sheboygan Redskins

* Sheboygan Redskins win two games to one over the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons

The Stags finished tied for third with the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons ( and behind the Lakers and Royals ), 11 games back, with a 40 – 28 record, and again lost to the Lakers in the opening round.

The Red Skins played in the National Basketball League from 1938 to 1949, led the league in defense five times, appeared in five championship series and won the 1942 – 43 title, defeating the league-leading Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons ( today's Detroit Pistons ) in the finals.

Buoyed by this added strength, the Red Skins took a 2-0 lead over the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons in the 1945 NBL championship series, only to be swept in the remaining three games.

Category: Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons players

Category: Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons players

fr: Catégorie: Joueur des Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons