Multiple Property Listing: Historic Resources of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas: Prepared for the National Park Service, this document provides historic context for the periods of development in Lawrenceâs built environment.
Fred MacMurray (1908â1991) Fred MacMurray was likely the most underrated actor of his generation. True, his earliest work is mostly dismissed as pedestrian, but no other actor working in the 1940s and 50s was able to score so supremely whenever cast against type. Frederick Martin MacMurray was born in Kankakee, Illinois, to Maleta Martin and Frederick MacMurray.
Zemurray is the subject of Rich Cohen's new book, The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King. Zemurray was a Jewish immigrant who grew up on a wheat farm in western Russia and was sent to the U.S. alone in his early teens. Unlike a lot of his compatriots, he was a giant man, Cohen tells NPR's Scott Simon. At the time he was like 6 feet 3 inches and he was a big, tough guy..