William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle , Washington to William H. Gates, Jr. (now Sr. ) and Mary Maxwell Gates . His family was wealthy; his father was a prominent lawyer, his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate Bank and the United Way , and her father, J. W. Maxwell, was a national bank president. Gates has one older sister, Kristi (Kristianne), and one younger sister, Libby. mind42
...World in 1620, as depicted in William Halsall's The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor , 1882 Spaniards established the earliest European colonies on the mainland, in the area they named ... www.mind42.com/wiki/United_States
With Bill Gates , he formed Microsoft . Allen regularly appears on lists of the richest people in the world; as of 2007 Forbes ranks him the fifth richest American [1] , worth an estimated 18.0 billion. www.mind42.com/wiki/Paul_Allen