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Keeler, Dorothy A., 1900-1976

Dorothy Keeler (1900-1976) served as the Chief Deputy County Clerk in Clark County, Nevada in the 1930s. In this position, she issued many marriage licenses to Hollywood celebrities and others who came to Las Vegas to get married. Born Dorothy Alice Vandewerkern in Otego, New York, she married Charles Keeler in Reno, Nevada in 1927. The couple relocated to Las Vegas where Charles Keeler worked for Frank Garside at the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The Keelers later moved to Washington, D.C.

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Shockley mining in Picklehandle Gulch: photographic print

Date

1890 (year approximate)

Description

William Hillman Shockley, Pickhandle Gulch, Mt. Diablo. Circa 1890.

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The Dentons' two sons, Ralph and Lewis, posed in front of tree: photographic print

Date

1939

Description

From the Hazel Baker Denton Photograph Collection (PH-00312)

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Stocker, Harold J., 1900-1983

Harold Stocker was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on March 8, 1900. He and his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1911. Harold Stocker operated Nevada Silica Sand Company in Overton, Nevada, from 1932 to 1940. He was elected to the Clark County Commission in 1938. In 1939, he built the Chief Hotel Court, and in 1948, the Desert Plaza Apartments. Stocker was state GOP chairman in the 1950s. Harold died January 9, 1983 in Las Vegas.

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