James Lawton worked as a carpenter for the Thanhouser Film Corporation.
James Lawton
A member of the Thanhouser Company.
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From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 56 words.
James Lawton, a carpenter for Thanhouser, went to the Jacksonville, Florida studio in 1916 and was among the Thanhouserites who left Jacksonville to travel north to New Rochelle at the end of May. In 1915 his home address in New Rochelle was 78 Horton Avenue.
Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “LAWTON, James.” thanhouser.org/research/people/james-lawton/