Robert Pershing Wadlow, the tallest man ever recorded in history by the Guinness Book of World Records, was born in Alton, Illinois but died at a hotel in Manistee, Michigan in 1940 at age 22.
Chester Greenwood was just fifteen years old when he invented earmuffs in 1873, known at the time as “Champion Ear Protectors.” Since then, his legacy has lived on in his hometown of Farmington, Maine, whose residents throw him a parade every year out of pure gratitude.