Stamps Family - Other Notables

Other Notables

William Stamps Farish II, president of Standard Oil of New Jersey, the forerunner of Exxon, from 1937–1942, carries the Stamps name because his father was named for his great-uncle, CSA veteran William Stamps mentioned above.

The legendary gospel group, the Stamps Quartet, led by Frank Stamps in the 1920s produced the first ever southern gospel hit single "Give The World A Smile." Frank and his brother Virgil Oliver Stamps were posthumously inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1997.

Professor Richard B. Stamps is an expert on the archeology and cultural anthropology of Taiwan and China.

George Moreland Stamps, also mentioned above, is a principal developer of the modern fax machine.

Thomas Paty Stamps saved over 100 family-owned farms in Georgia and Texas as a result of federal bankruptcy litigation throughout the 1980s.

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