In 1958 Jimmy Wilson, a black man, was sentenced to death by a jury in Marion for stealing $ 1. 95 from Estelle Barker.

Two of the earliest cookbooks with iced tea recipes are the Buckeye Cookbook by Estelle Woods Wilcox, first published in 1876, and Housekeeping in Old Virginia by Marion Cabell Tyree, first published in 1877.

Other actors included George Grizzard, Bethel Leslie, Patricia Medina, Patricia Barry, Richard Anderson, Richard Chamberlain, Elisha Cook, Conrad Nagel, Russell Johnson, Diana Millay, Philip Carey, Susan Oliver, J. Pat O ' Malley, Henry Daniell, Robert Vaughn, Marlo Thomas, John Ireland, Jeanette Nolan, Virginia Gregg, Hazel Scott, Lloyd Bochner, Scott Marlowe, Judson Pratt, Mary Astor, Marion Ross, MacDonald Carey, Natalie Schafer, Phyllis Thaxter, Estelle Winwood, Antoinette Bower, Jo Van Fleet, Jane Greer, Dick York, Jocelyn Brando, Richard Carlson, William Windom, George Kennedy and Patricia Breslin.

Famous people who attended the Little Red Schoolhouse include opera star and Edison protégé, Anna Case and Marion Van Fleet, the mother of actor Lee Van Cleef.

Denis Charles Pratt was born in Sutton, Surrey, the fourth child of solicitor Spencer Charles Pratt ( 1871 – 1931 ) and former governess Frances Marion Pratt ( née Phillips ) ( 1873 – 1960 ); he changed his name to Quentin Crisp in his twenties, after leaving home and cultivating his outlandishly effeminate appearance to a standard that both shocked contemporary Londoners and provoked homophobic attacks.

Marion College, a two-year Lutheran women's college, operated from 1873 to 1967.

In 1873 the newly opened New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway ( NYS & W ) and Montclair Railway ( later New York and Greenwood Lake Railway, NY & GL ) began using trackage rights over the Erie route to Marion Junction in order to reach the PRR cut.

The line was built in 1873 from New Durham, North Bergen ( near the point now known as CP 2 ) south to the PRR at Marion Junction, with the southernmost part leased from the Erie Railroad's as their original terminus, built as the Paterson and Hudson River Railroad.

In 1873 Marion Terry made her first West End appearances in his plays, A Game of Romps and All That Glitters Is Not Gold at the Olympic Theatre.

The Panic of 1873 caused the acreage to be sold to N. R. Rucker, the Marion County sheriff, who himself sold the area to the city of Indianapolis shortly thereafter in 1874 for $ 109, 500.

* 1930 – The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana.

* 1882 – Marion Bauer, American composer, writer, and critic ( d. 1955 )

* 1883 – Marion Lorne, American actress ( d. 1968 )

* 1955 – Marion Caspers-Merk, German politician

He married eight times: Ruth Boyd ( 1940 – 1947 ), dancer Marion Bell ( 1947 – 1949 ), Nancy Olson ( 1950 – 1957 ), lawyer Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo ( 1957 – 1965 ), editor Karen Gunderson ( 1966 – 1974 ), Sandra Payne ( 1974 – 1976 ), Nina Bushkin ( 1977 – 1981 ) and Liz Robertson ( 1981 – 1986 death ).

* 1917 – Marty Marion, American baseball player and manager ( d. 2011 )

* 1732 – Francis Marion, American Revolutionary War officer ( d. 1795 )

Ackerman had 50 stories published, including collaborations with A. E. van Vogt, Francis Flagg, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Donald Wollheim and Catherine Moore and the world's shortest – one letter of the alphabet.

* 1772 – Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer ( b. 1724 )

* 1813 – James Marion Sims, American physician ( d. 1883 )

* 1930 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author ( d. 1999 )

* 1984 – Marion Thees, German skeleton racer

* 1869 – Will Marion Cook ( d. 1944 )

* 1962 – Chris Marion, American musician ( Little River Band and Western Flyer )

* 1987 – Marion Hutton, American singer and actress ( b. 1919 )

* 1990 – Washington, D. C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.

* Dr. George Marion Harmon ( 1978 – 2000 )-After 22 years of leading Millsaps College, Dr. Harmon announced his resignation in the Spring of 1999.

* 1978 – Shawn Marion, American basketball player

* 1879 – Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player ( d. 1965 )

The Perry County town of Marion was the site of a 1965 killing of an unarmed black man, Jimmie Lee Jackson, by a white state trooper, James Bonard Fowler, which sparked the Selma to Montgomery marches.

In 1965, after graduating from Alvin High School, one of Major League Baseball's Hall of Famer pitchers, Nolan Ryan, signed a professional baseball contract with the New York Mets, and was assigned to a minor league team in the Appalachian League called the Marion Mets ( 1965 – 1976 ) in Marion, Virginia.

Marion " Suge " Knight, Jr. (; born April 19, 1965 ) ( a. k. a. Big Suge or Big Simon ) is the founder and CEO of Black Kapital Records and co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records.

* 2000 French Recipes ( 1965, Translated to English by Marion Howells ) ISBN 1-85051-694-4

Around 1965 however, the Movement had established offices near the United Nations, with American federalist Marion McVitty as the Movement's UN observer and advocate.

Marion continued making larger power shovels until they built The Captain in 1965 with a 180-yard bucket and a weight of 15, 000 tons.

On February 18, 1965, C. T. Vivian led a march to the courthouse in Marion, the county seat of Perry County.

In 1965 according to the New York Times, Marion Hutton sought treatment for various addictions.

The college's previous presidents are Robert G. Rayburn ( 1955 – 1965 ), Marion Barnes ( 1965 – 1978 ), Martin Essenburg ( 1978 – 1987 ), Frank A. Brock ( 1987 – 2002 ), and Niel Nielson ( 2002-2012 ).

He also recorded five albums with saxophonist Archie Shepp ( 1965 – 1970 ), including the classic, Four for Trane, two albums with Marion Brown ( 1965 – 1966 ), one album with Alan Silva ( 1970 ), and made an appearance on one of his brother's albums ( The All Seeing Eye in 1965 ).

* Marion Brown Quartet ( 1965 )

* Dingaka ( 1965 ) .... Marion Davis

On July 6, 1914, Deering's daughter Marion ( 1887 – 1965 ) married Chauncey McCormick in Paris over his objections.

After appearing in thirteen games and posting a 2 – 3 record with an 11. 25 earned run average ( ERA ) with the Marion Mets in 1965, he spent the next two years on active duty with the United States Army as a truck driver in Vietnam.

* Oral history interview with Marion Post Wolcott, 1965 Jan. 18, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.