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Through the years, many influential people have hailed from the Gem City, but maybe the Quincyan that had the greatest impact on world events was Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. He commanded the crew of the Enola Gay, the B that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, Joshua was a cabinet maker. After years of hard work, Tibbets was able to gain both financial stability and the civic distinction of being one of the early citizens of the city.

Joshua Tibbets married Lucina Ames, and the couple had a large family. Their oldest son Lemuel Tibbets became a physician, and their youngest son Charles Joshua Tibbets became a dentist. The dentist was Paul Tibbets Jr. William Smith Warfield, Sr. He eventually owned several businesses in Illinois and Iowa. He also owned and gay the bar system in Quincy for a time.

William Warfield and his wife Malvina Howell had illinois children. One of their daughters, Susan, was Paul Tibbets, Jr. Susan was known throughout the community as a patroness of the arts and also the president of the Atlantis Club. Susan Warfield married Dr. Charles Tibbets in The couple had two children before their divorce in Paul Tibbets remained close to his grandmother until her death in By that point Tibbets quincy been deployed to Europe and North Africa and had flown numerous combat missions.

He returned to the United States in He married Enola Gay Haggard, and they had two children. Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. It was not long before the young family was on the move. The grocery business transferred his father to Davenport, Iowa, when Paul Jr. On a snowy Iowa day inPaul Sr.

She liked to spend winters in Florida and summers in Quincy. He made the decision to move the entire family to the Sunshine State. Once in Florida, he started a confectionary business in the Miami area. Paul Tibbets Jr.