Michael Stack

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Michael Edward Stack was born on May 17, 1945 in Toledo, Ohio to Mary Catherine Ardner Stack and Vincent Edward Stack. He is 3/8th Irish, 3/8th German, 1/8th French and 1/8th Scotch. As his father was involved in large construction projects for the Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation he moved often as a child. He lived in Toledo, Ohio; Sarnia, Ontario, Canada; Freeport, Texas; Lincoln, Maine and St. Petersburg, Florida. He attended St. Jude Catholic School and Bishop Barry High School (now St. Petersburg Catholic). When he was 17 years-old he saved four thirteen-year-old boys and a twenty-year-old woman from drowning in a swift current in the ocean near Sea Island, Georgia. After graduating from high school, he worked with his father constructing a large fertilizer plant near Wilmington, North Carolina. He worked at the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, DC. He then attended the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida and every other semester worked as a cooperative education student for the U.S Food and Drug Administration in Washington, DC. Upon graduation with a bachelors in chemistry he became a research chemist for the FDA. His work was on mycotoxins (toxic mold metabolites in food). The work involved inventing methods of analysis for mycotoxins in food and isolation, identification, and structural elucidation of new mycotoxins. Some of the mycotoxins worked on were: aflatoxins, ochratoxins, alternaria toxins, fumonisins, xanthomegnin and trichothecenes. He attended American University in Washington at nights and earned a master’s degree in biochemistry. He authored 60 research publications with results of his work. At the end of his career he traveled to teach about mycotoxins in such places as New Orleans, Atlanta, Uruguay, Venezuela, Mexico, Thailand, Jamaica, and South Africa.

He married Ann Alwood Rich Stack in St. Stephens Church in Washington, DC and they moved to Arlington, Virginia for a time before moving to a small farm near Frederick, Maryland. They lived in a stone house built before 1845. They had Angus cows and a bull, ponies, pigs, geese, ducks, chickens, cats and a dog, Fritz. Eggs were sold to people at the FDA. Pigs were sold at the Frederick Livestock Auction. Vegetables were sold at the Frederick County Fair Grounds. He later moved to Springfield, Virginia where he married twice more.

Michael has two sons, a daughter, a granddaughter, two grandsons, two step-daughters, a step-son, two step-grandsons and two step-granddaughters. Michael is proud of all of them and everything that they have accomplished.

I am descended from Brian Boruma, the High King of Ireland and Rickard Stack, the Knight of Errimore. Please see photos for descent.

I am also descended from the following founders Of New France:

Raymond Vegiard dit Labonté, Pierre Pinot dit La Perle, Anne Boyer, Pierre Richer dit Laflèche, Antoine Brassard, Françoise Méry, François Rolland dit Lafleur, Jean Lemire, Nicolas Marsolet sieur de Saint-Aignan, Marie Barbier, Paul Daveluy dit la rose de Picardie, Jean Bernardin Lesage dit le Piedmontois, Nicolas Sylvestre dit Champagne, Jean Nepveu, Anne Ledet, Pierre Thuot dit Duval, Antoine Fournier dit Préfontaine, Jean Ronceray dit le Breton, Jeanne Servignan (fdr), Julien Piedalu dit Prairie, Louis Bertrand Aupry dit Laramée, René Dumas dit Rencontre, Magdeleine (Marie) Lelong (fdr), Gervais Meunier dit Lafleur, Guillaume David, Marie Armand, Jacques Lussier, Catherine Clérice (fdr), Jean-Baptiste Benjamin dit St-Aubin, Julien Allard dit Labarre, Julien Mercier, Claude Basile Joseph Poulain, Jeanne Mercier, Jean Vigeant dit Taupier dit Larose, Laurent Perrier dit Olivier, Jean Besset dit Brisetout, Anne Seigneur (fdr), Jean Baptiste Deslandes dit Champigny, Joseph Serran dit L'Espagnol, Marguerite Viard (fdr), André Jarret Sieur de Beauregard, Marguerite Anthiaume, Jean Beaudet, Marie Grandin (fdr).

(fdr) = Filles du Roi

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