Ralph Grayson (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ralph Lawrence Grayson (1921-1991) was a scientist, engineer, pilot, attorney, soldier, father and husband. He was born into poverty, the son of an Arkansas sharecropper. He went on to be a pioneer in network computing and play a lead role in the development of the Space Shuttle. Ralph Lawrence Grayson was born April 29, 1921 in Fort Smith, Arkansas; the eldest of eleven children born to Albert Grayson. The first eight children were mothered by Albert's first wife, Pearl Grayson (maiden name, Pearl Agnes Foster, 1895-1934). Pearl died on July 23, 1934 (circumstances unknown). The following year Albert remarried and had three more children with Ruby Grayson (Maiden name, Ruby Tanner).