Harvey Henderson Wilcox (1832 - March 19, 1891) owned a ranch to the west of the city of Los Angeles, which his wife Daeida named Hollywood, and where the center of the American cinema industry developed in the early 1900s.
Read more about Harvey Henderson Wilcox: Biography, Hollywood Years, Death
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