Edward Carelton Swift, at one time the owner of the largest meat packing operation in the U.S. built a mansion, Swiftmoor on Paine Avenue in Prides Crossing. Eleonora Eleo Sears a flamboyant female socialite and world class tennis player owned a residence that still exists where Paine Avenue and West Beach meet.
In 2003, burnt-out ex-CIA(SAD/SOG) Paramilitary operations officer and former U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance officer John Creasy (Denzel Washington) visits his old comrade Paul Rayburn (Christopher Walken), who runs a security firm in Mexico.
John Hay: American Diplomat John Milton Hay was born in Salem, Indiana, the son of a physician who schooled him Greek and Latin. Hay spent most of his youth in Warsaw, Illinois, attended Illinois State University (later Concordia College) and received a master's degree from Brown University, in 1858. John Hay began the practice of law with an uncle in Springfield, Illinois, where he became acquainted with Abraham Lincoln. In 1861, he was appointed a private secretary of Lincoln, along with John Nicolay; both assiduously collected items of historical merit that would later serve as the basis of a biography of the president.