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2 unusual facts about Oliver W. Frey


Oliver Frey

Oliver W. Frey (1887–1939), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania

Oliver W. Frey

Frey was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Winfield Watson.


Donald N. Frey

He was instrumental in promoting the first successful CD-ROM based information system, designing the dealer auto parts catalog for General Motors, by David Gump, to be distributed to dealers on CD.

As a tribute to his parents (his father was an engineer and his mother was studying engineering when the couple married) he set up the Margaret and Muir Frey Memorial Prize for Innovation and Creativity ("Frey Prize") at the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University in 2001.

During World War II Frey worked on the Packard V-1650 version of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine for Packard Motors, the engines to be sent to England for placement in the Hurricanes and Spitfires.

Double Dragon Publishing

Authors include Gail Z. Martin, J.M. Frey, Danny Birt, Geoff Nelder, Simon Drake, Dan DeBono, Tony Teora, E. Rose Sabin, David Conway (founder of cult band "My Bloody Valentine"), Steve Lazarowitz, Michael A. Ventrella, Ben Manning, Margret A. Treiber and the late Nick Pollotta.

Margaret, Alabama

Major General Oliver W. Dillard, US Army Retired, became the Army's fifth Black general officer in 1972.

Perry A. Frey

After earning his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral fellow for enzymologist Frank Westheimer at Harvard University.


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