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Liddle, Samuel
Samuel Liddle owned and operated a general store in Leadville, Nevada during 1887. Born in England around 1841, Samuel traveled to the western United States to reach mining areas where his occupation as a mining engineer and machinist kept him employed.
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Light, Edward C., 1917-1992
Edward C. Light was an aeronautical engineer at the Hughes Aircraft Company (HAC) where he was responsible for supervising the design of aircraft control systems between 1942 and 1946. During this period, he worked on the Hughes H-4 Hercules, also known as the "flying boat" or the "Spruce Goose." As of March 2017, the plane has the longest wingspan of any flight-capable aircraft. Later in his career, he returned to HAC in 1954-1955 as a research physicist working on the Falcon Guidance System.
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Livingston, Jack, 1918-1965
Jack Pershing Livingston was born in 1918 in Denver, Colorado. He began working at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory beginning in 1951 and was promoted to the Associate Group Leader in the Test Division. In 1962 he was transferred to Mercury, Nevada to the Nuclear Rocket Development Station. He died at the age of 46 on January 4, 1965.
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Smith, Jackie, 1944-2015
Jacquelynn Smith was born on November 11, 1944 in Denver, Colorado. She graduated from Nevada Southern University with a bachelor's degree in elementary education. After graduation Jacquelynn began work for defense contractors who worked at the Nevada Test Site and National Laboratories. Jacquelynn also worked for the defense contractor EG and G Incorporated. Jacquelynn Smith passed away on November 7, 2015.
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Loewy, Michael
Michael Loewy was the founder of Desert Mountain States Lesbian and Gay Conference and the Lesbian and Gay Academic Union at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Loewy moved to California in 1987, but remained involved with the gay community in Las Vegas. In 2002 he graduated with a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2003 he won a Foundation Award, "Honoring the Pioneers of Gay Las Vegas."
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London, David
David London was a Las Vegas entertainer that performed a morning radio show in the 1970s called "Coffee with the Londons" and co-starred his wife, Nancy London. London passed away on August 30, 2015.
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