Carnegie Hero rebuilds toy company AJ Play
Jacob Scott Jones’s dream was interrupted by life. But when his new routine was violently interrupted, Jones was inspired to resurrect his dream: Building his own toy company. Jones, 39, …

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Jacob Scott Jones’s dream was interrupted by life. But when his new routine was violently interrupted, Jones was inspired to resurrect his dream: Building his own toy company. Jones, 39, …
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Carnegie Hero William E. Ramirez, 49, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., was among 100 people who became U.S. citizens at an Aug. 17, 2018, ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration …
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Grace Helen Hodges Chamberlin poses with her great-grandfather’s Carnegie Medal. Carnegie Hero Francis Traill Hodges was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1932 after he saved a 23-year-old man and attempted …
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Once celebrated as the “bravest woman in America,” Ida Lewis, the famed lighthouse keeper, earned a multitude of prestigious honors for a series of water rescues in Newport, R.I. And …
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Earl Gulick is absent from the roll of Carnegie Heroes, but his bravery as a 14-year-old in a 1902 water rescue once led to the mistaken, widespread belief that he …
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Sequim (Wash.) Mayor Dennis Smith, right, presented the Carnegie Medal to Carnegie Hero Jason Alan Doig, left, at a city council meeting held June 25, 2018, in Sequim. Doig, a …
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Carnegie Hero Robert Lee Thornton Jr. holds the Carnegie Medal on June 28, 2018, after a presentation at Center Line (Mich.) City Hall. Presenting the award, from left, were Center Line …
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Rockwall (Texas) Mayor Jim Pruitt, left, and U.S. Rep. John Ratcliffe, right, presented Carnegie Hero Frank B. Conselman, center, the Carnegie Medal at a ceremony held at a Rotary Club …
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Colorado Springs (Colo.) Mayor John Suthers, left, presented the Carnegie Medal to Carnegie Hero Ross A. Johnson at a June 26, 2018, city council meeting. Johnson, of Colorado Springs, received …
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Carnegie Hero Joshua K. Watt, center, was presented the Carnegie Medal on June 22, 2018, at the Edmonson County (Ky.) Courthouse. With Watt, from left, are Brownsville (Ky.) police Chief …
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From left, Milford (Conn.) Mayor Ben Blake stands with Diane O’Rourke and husband, Carnegie Hero John Gerard O’Rourke after presenting the Carnegie Medal to O’Rourke for his rescue of a …
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From left, Carnegie Hero Fund President Eric P. Zahren, Carnegie heroes Zachary J. Corey and Karen Marie Mallon, and Taylor Blackmore, from Rep. Jack Bergman’s office, pose after Zahren presented …
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Carnegie Hero Fund Case Investigator Susan M. Rizza and President Eric P. Zahren, center, traveled to King of Prussia, Pa., in August 2018 to present the Carnegie Medal to, from …
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Volunteer presenter Ralph Cash Kaschai, left, presented Carnegie Hero Thomas Julius Sais Jr., center, the Carnegie Medal during a private presentation held July 5, 2018, in Melbourne, Fla. Sais’s wife Donna, …
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Pima County (Ariz.) Sheriff Mark Napier, right, presents the Carnegie Medal to Carnegie Hero Brian Kunze, a sergeant, at an Aug. 7, 2018, Pima County Board of Supervisors meeting. Kunze …
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George E. Phillips, 82, of Vermilion, Ohio, died Sunday, June 11, 2017, at his home after a brief illness. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1970 for helping save …
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Editor’s Note: Carnegie Hero Phillip DeEvans Bretz was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1993 for the rescue of Frederick A. Garbutt, 28, whom he pulled from a burning vehicle Aug. 14, …
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The family of S. Flonnie Holliman recently honored the Carnegie hero by affixing a grave marker to her headstone, more than 50 years after her death and more than 100 …
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There are a few great souls who can rise to the height of alleviating others to do for them what they would like to do for others. Are you one …