About the Author

Dorothy Hanton Coles worked as a an Inventory Management Specialist (IMS) during the Vietnam war at the Defense Industrial Supply Center (DISC), in Philadelphia. Later she forged a successful career managing her real estate holdings and is now happily retired. After donating her Family Archives and -History to the Temple University Library, what started as writing a few pages to accompany the collection, resulted, almost 3 years later, in the book 'The Hantons, The Randolphs, and Me'.