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Down, James Henry, Sr., 1877-1946

County Commissioner and business owner James H. Down Sr. (1877-1946) was born in Michigan on September 20, 1877. After the death of both of his parents, he was adopted by Walter A. Down. In 1907 James H. Down married his first wife, Rogena Mahar. They moved to Nevada in 1916 and settled in Goodsprings, Nevada where he worked for George A. Fayle. In 1923, Down relocated to Las Vegas and operated a garage. He opened a Studebaker automobile dealership at the corner of Main and Carson Streets in downtown Las Vegas. In Las Vegas, James H. Down Sr.

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Duarte, Denise, 1960-

Denise Duarte was born in 1960 and is an activist and artist in Nevada. She led the Nevada Women's Lobby and Stand OUT for Equality, both important advocacy groups for women's and LGBTQ+ rights in Nevada.

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Fisher, Kristene

Kristine Fisher is the Director of Operations in charge of Student Affairs Strategic Planning & Assessment at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Fisher, Kristine. "Kristene Fisher, B.A. - People." University of Nevada, Las Vegas website. Accessed on July 31, 2020. https://www.unlv.edu/people/kristene-fisher.

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Firth, Brian

Brian Firth is the co-founder of the comedy band the Dummkopfs. Firth is a trumpeter, first starting to play professionally at age twenty-one. He played primarily in the United Kingdom with a group called the Nitwits. The Nitwits came to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1967 to perform at the Lido de Paris and stayed for a few years. After the break up of the Nitwits, Brian joined the Mickey Finn Band. He played with them for fifteen years before he and his wife Suzy created the Dummkopfs.

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Ferron, Ruth Cooper, 1893-1990

Ruth Cooper Ferron was the wife of William E. Ferron and a former president of the Mesquite Club in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born in 1893. In 1917, she married William Ferron in Salt Lake City, Utah and the two lived in a home on the corner of 4th and Fremont for many years, close to the family's drug store. She is also the mother of Barbara Ferron Doyle and Shirley Elizabeth Ferron Swanson. Ruth Cooper Ferron died in 1990.

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Sidney, Corinne, 1937-

Corrine Sidney was born on April 13, 1937. She attended the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles. Corrine Sidney was an actress, a Las Vegas, Nevada showgirl, and a television talk show host and gossip columnist in Los Angeles, California. She was married to Jack Entratter who produced Las Vegas shows and later to movie director George Sidney.

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Garrison, Elizabeth Schneehagen, 1943-

Elizabeth Garrison was born January 13, 1943 in Las Vegas, Nevada. After graduating from Bishop Gorman High School, she worked at the Southern Nevada Telephone Company. Garrison got married to her husband in 1975.

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