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Gary, Indiana, was founded in 1906 by the U.S. Steel corporation as the home for its new plant, Gary Works.The city was named after lawyer Elbert Henry Gary, who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation.
The Ammons haunting case, also known as the Demon House, is a purported haunting and demonic possession which occurred in Gary, Indiana in 2011. Latoya Ammons, her mother, Rosa Campbell, and her three children claimed paranormal activity occurred in the residence. The story was published in 2014 and received national attention. [1]
Gary Hoisington was born in Derry, New Hampshire, on July 16, 1950. [4] [5] After a childhood rife with bullying and mistreatment, he left home when he was 16. [4]He enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, but did not graduate, and later moved to San Francisco, and then Los Angeles; it was there, in the early 1970s, when he began using the name "Gary Indiana".
Indiana's Republican-dominated Legislature moved quickly to approve the new law this year, stipulating that only the state's attorney general can bring civil action against a firearm or ammunition ...
Gary was part of a national movement by mayors to take on industry practices and combat illegal firearms sales. Straw sales in Indiana have continued amid the court and legislative battles.
By Dina Spector Gary, Ind., was once the center of American steel production. Movie theaters, department stores and restaurants were part of the fabric of a bustling industrial city. Now Gary is a ...
A Methodist church had been present in Gary since 1906 (also the year of the city's founding). In 1916, Dr William Grant Seaman became its pastor. A man of dynamic energy, Seaman envisaged a much larger church to serve the town, wanting to bring a prominent religious presence into what was then a somewhat insalubrious neighbourhood with numerous brothels and drinking establishments.
The Gary Works remains Gary's largest single employer and a key element of the city's tax base, [6] but employment levels have fallen substantially since the mid-20th century; the plant and allied facilities employed over 30,000 people in the early 1970s, but only 6,000 in 1990, [7] 5,000 in 2015, [8] 2,500 in 2021, [9] and 2,246 in 2023. [10]