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Monroe Dunaway Anderson was born on June 29, 1873, the sixth of eight children born to James W. Anderson and his wife Ellen (née Dunaway) in Jackson, Tennessee.Private J.W. Anderson had enlisted in the Confederate States Army, but had been captured in March 1864 as he returned home to visit his young family in McNairy County (south of Jackson, on the Mississippi border), then was held at Camp ...
The company was created as a partnership on August 1, 1904, by Monroe Dunaway (M. D.) Anderson, his brother Frank E. Anderson and Frank's brother-in-law William L. "Will") Clayton. [3] [4] In 1916, the company moved to Houston, Texas in order to have better access to a shipping port. [5]
The cancer center is named after Monroe Dunaway Anderson, who feared that in the event of one of the partners' deaths, his company would lose a large amount of money to estate tax and be forced to dissolve. To avoid this, Anderson created the MD Anderson Foundation with an initial sum of $300,000.
Anderson, Clayton and Company was founded in early 1905 by brothers-in-law Monroe Dunaway Anderson and William L. Clayton. Originally based in Oklahoma City, the firm moved its headquarters to Houston in 1916. There, it grew to be the world's largest cotton-trading enterprise. [5]
He left the company later that year to join with two other partners (including his brother-in-law Monroe Dunaway Anderson) in starting Anderson, Clayton and Company, a cotton marketing firm based in Oklahoma City. [2] In 1916, the firm moved its headquarters to Houston, Texas, where it grew to be the world's largest cotton-trading enterprise. [3]
Pamela Anderson has shades of another Hollywood "it girl" that came before her, according to The Last Showgirl director Gia Coppola. "She is the Marilyn [Monroe] of our time,' " Coppola said of ...
78. Jim Dunaway, defensive tackle: Died in 2018 at 76; he was charged but ultimately not indicted after authorities found his ex-wife, Nonniel Dunaway, dead in a half-empty swimming pool. His ...
Monroe wore the famous white dress in the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch, directed by Billy Wilder.The scene was filmed early in the morning on Sept. 15, 1954, on the corner of Lexington Avenue and ...