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6 unusual facts about Lorain


Jorge Otero Barreto

On 22 June 2012, Otero Barreto was the keynote speaker at a Vietnam Veterans Memorial Dinner in Lorain, Ohio.

Leo Camera

Following his time in the legislature, he would return to Lorain and retire.

Quincy Adams Gillmore

Gillmore was born and raised in Black River (now the City of Lorain) in Lorain County, Ohio.

A coal schooner named in his honor, the General QA Gillmore, sank in 1881 in Lake Erie about 45 miles west of Lorain, near Kelley's Island.

Robert J. Corts

Representing the 13th District from 1969−1974, Corts represented the area in and around Lorain.

USS Lorain

USS Lorain has been the name of multiple ships of the United States Navy ship, in honor of Lorain, Ohio.


Charles Berry Bridge

The bridge had been built in the late 1930s and in use for roughly 48 years before extensive rehabilitation was finished and the bridge was officially renamed in honor of Lorain native Charles J. Berry, a Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during a minor grenade battle on Iwo Jima.

Dan Ramos

A lifetime Lorain resident and graduate of Lorain Admiral King High School, Ramos went on to study political science at the Ohio State University.

David Boe

Boe commissioned organ-builder John Brombaugh's first major instrument, Opus 4 in Lorain, Ohio, and has always been keenly interested in historical performance and early temperaments.

Eusebius A. Stephanou

Baptized with the name Agamemnon, Stephanou lived as a child in Detroit, Michigan and Lorain, Ohio where his father served as priest in the local Greek Orthodox Church.

Helen Steiner Rice

She died on the evening of April 23, 1981, a month before her 81st birthday, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Lorain, Ohio.

Lorain Township, Nobles County, Minnesota

On July 5, 1874, the township was renamed Lorain Township after Loraine, Illinois.

Waks

WCLV, a radio station (104.9 FM) licensed to Lorain, Ohio, United States, which carried the WAKS callsign from 1999 to 2001

WEOL

In the 1951 decision Lorain Journal Co. v. United States, 343 U.S. 143, it was found that the Journal violated key provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act by seeking to maintain their near monopoly on advertising revenue.


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