Simon Lake
American engineer and naval architect
Simon Lake was a Quaker American mechanical engineer and naval architect who obtained over two hundred patents for advances in naval design and competed with John Philip Holland to build the first submarines for the United States Navy. Wikipedia
Born: September 4, 1866, Pleasantville, NJ
Died: June 23, 1945 (age 78 years), Milford, CT
Grandchildren: Ann Sothern, Bonnie Lake, and Marion Lake