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4 unusual facts about Austin E. Lathrop


Austin E. Lathrop

Lathrop was born in 1865 in Lapeer County, Michigan to Eugene Lathrop and Susan Miriah Parsons Lathrop.

In 1924, he produced The Chechahcos, the first feature-length film shot entirely in Alaska.

The Lathrop Building (516 Second Avenue, completed 1936) would be sold to Jim Whitaker and his wife for what has been publicly described at numerous civic meetings as being pennies on the dollar.

KENI Radio Building

The reinforced concrete two story building was owned by Cap Lathrop, who had worked with Porreca on Lathrop's Fourth Avenue Theatre.


Austin E. Ford

Ford was a relative of Bishop Francis Xavier Ford, M.M., a missionary killed during the Korean War, Sister Ita Ford, M.M., a missionary murdered in El Salvador in 1980, and her brother, William P. Ford, Jr.

Austin E. Quigley

Austin Edmund Quigley (born December 31, 1942) was Dean of Columbia College of Columbia University, Lucy G. Moses Professor, and Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University, in New York City, and the recipient of the 2008 Alexander Hamilton Medal, Columbia College's highest honor.

Phillips Mill Historic District

Notable buildings and structures include the home of artist William L. Lathrop, the Phillips Mill Inn, West End Farm, "Lenteboden," the Hotel du Village, "Stone Cottage," and St. Philips Chapel.


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