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Catherine Marie Rawlinson Lawrence

Cordelia A (Lawrence) Lorenz

Robert Gerard Goulet

Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence

Chita Rivera, Jerome Robbins, Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence

Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence

Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence

Bill Mashall Lawrence

Stephanna Patterson Lawrence

Dorlis Lawrence

Dorlis Lawrence

Thelma Inez Lawrence

Charles Lawrence

Robert Roy Naquin

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Louis Couty

Linda & Joyce (Lawrence) Couget

Linda Couget Naquin

Paul Dunn Sr.

Frederick Dunn Sr.

Charles Pohlman

Paul Lawrence, Sr.

Catherine & Frank Lawrence, Virginia Dunn

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In 1907, in the year that Wesley Lawrence was born, in October, over a 3 week period, the New York stock exchange fell almost 50% from the previous year's high mark. Public panic ensued and there were runs on banks since the U.S. was in the middle of a recession. J.P. Morgan offered his own fortune to back the banks and he was followed by other financiers. This temporarily shored up the banking system, stopping the immediate panic. All of this led to the creation of the Federal Reserve.

In 1923, by the time he was 16 years old, the A.C. Nielsen Company was founded in Chicago. It provided an audience measurement system that could provide radio station owners with information on their listeners and the popularity of their shows. Later, the Nielsen company became the basis for the fate of television programs.

In 1965, he was 58 years old when the television show "I Spy" premiered in the fall season on NBC. The stars were Bill Cosby and Robert Culp, making Cosby the first African American to headline a television show. Four stations - in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama - refused to air the show.

In 1971, when he was 64 years old, in March, Intel shipped the first microprocessor to Busicom, a Japanese manufacturer of calculators. The microprocessor has since allowed computers to become smaller and faster, leading to smaller and more versatile handheld devices, home computers, and supercomputers.

In 1985, by the time he was 78 years old, on March 7th, the song "We Are the World" was released as a charity effort to alleviate the African famine. The song was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and produced by Quincy Jones. They were joined by 37 other famous singers in the recording studio and a phenomena had begun