Alfred C. Glassell Jr.

[1] Glassell served with the United States Army during World War II, attaining the rank of major.

[1] He was aide-de-camp to General Troy H. Middleton, the commanding officer of the 45th Infantry Division, and saw combat in North Africa, Sicily and Italy.

[2] Glassell followed his father into the oil and gas business, helping discover a number of new fields on the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Texas.

[1] An oceanographic research laboratory at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science was named in his honour.

He was the first to land a black marlin weighing over 1,000 pounds (450 kg) under International Game Fish Association (IGFA) rules.

[5] On August 4, 1953, while fishing off of Cabo Blanco, Glassell caught a black marlin weighing 1,560 pounds (710 kg) using a handheld 7-foot (2.1 m) bamboo rod, a Fin-Nor reel and 130-pound-test linen line.

The Smithsonian also gave the mounted black marlin to the Houston Museum on a long-term lease, exhibited in a climate-controlled case built into the hall.

[3] That bequest was contested by his daughter Curry, with a jury finding in November 2009 against her argument that Glassell was suffering from the dementia at the time he drafted the will in 2003.