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Tilman, Lee R., 1913-2007
Lee R. Tilman was known for working on the Boulder (Hoover) Dam construction. He was born in Gooding, Idaho and had worked many jobs including a miner, ranch hand, and truck driver. He has given interviews regarding the dam's construction for many programs including PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), the History Channel, and the Discovery Channel.
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"Lee Tilman." Las Vegas Review-Journal. Accessed January 30, 2020. https://obits.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/lvrj/obituary.aspx?n=lee-tilman&pid=142144316
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MacDonald, Richard C., 1945-
Richard “Rich” MacDonald, Jr. developed MacDonald Ranch, one of the oldest master-planned communities in Henderson, Nevada. Originally from Nevada, Rich’s parents, Richard “Mac” MacDonald, Sr. (1924-2014) and his wife Francis MacDonald (1924-2017), lived in Hawaii for twenty years. After Sam Boyd showed the MacDonalds two square miles of property south of Las Vegas, Nevada, they, along with their son Rich, moved back to Las Vegas and began the development of MacDonald Ranch in the early 1980s.
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Bittle, Ilene, 1936-
Ilene Bittle (1936-) was an educator from the Clark County School District, and a life-long resident of Henderson, Nevada. Over the years, she collected assorted memorabilia and visual materials from the old Basic High School in Henderson. Materials included scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, event programs and invitations, newsletters, and other school mementos. She donated this collection to UNLV Special Collections & Archives in 1993. She was also a founding member of Friends of Henderson Libraries.
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Harris, Asalee, 1933-
Asalee Harris was born in Fortune Fork, a little place outside of Tallulah, Louisiana, on the road to Vicksburg, Mississippi. A family of sharecroppers, the cotton farming was arduous and eventually they moved to Tallulah. She married and her husband's brothers lived in Las Vegas so in 1954 Asalee and James joined them.
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Eliscu, Edward, 1902-1998
Edward "Eddie" Eliscu was born in New York City, New York in 1902. He began performing in vaudeville and on Broadway after completing college; in 1929 he co-produced his first Broadway score and moved to Hollywood the following year to work as a lyricist. In 1935 he earned an Academy Award nomination for "Carioca" from the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers hit, Flying Down to Rio. Eliscu continued to work as a lyricist and screenwriter in Hollywood until 1950. He died in 1998.
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