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==Notable residents== *[[Henry Ford (Michigan legislator)|Henry Ford]] (1825β1894), Michigan state senator and Lawton village president (not to be confused with the industrialist [[Henry Ford]])<ref name="book_bingham">{{cite book |last=Bingham |first=Stephen D. |date=1888 |title=Early History of Michigan: With Biographies of State Officers, Members of Congress, Judges and Legislators |via=[[Internet Archive]] |trans-title= |url=https://archive.org/details/earlyhistorymic01binggoog |language=English |location= |publisher=Thorp & Godfrey, state printers |isbn=}}</ref><ref name="book_ellis">{{cite book |last=Ellis |first=Franklin |date=1880 |title=History of Berrien and Van Buren Counties, Michigan |via=[[Google Books]] |trans-title= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xw0MdUH2EwIC |language=English |location= |publisher= |isbn=}}</ref> *[[Charlie Maxwell]] Charles Richard Maxwell (1927β2024) was an American professional baseball outfielder who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox (1950β52, 1954), Baltimore Orioles (1955), Detroit Tigers (1955β62) and Chicago White Sox (1962β64). Lawton High School 1944, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, and Chicago White Sox. Nicknames included "The South Paw from Paw Paw (given by the Detroit Tigers announcer Van Patrick because of Maxwell's unusually-named hometown of Paw Paw, Michigan), "Smokey," "Sunday Charlie", and "The Sabbath Smasher", the latter two given in recognition of his propensity for hitting home runs on Sundays. *[[W. Rae Young]] (October 30, 1915 β March 7, 2008) was one of the Bell Labs engineers that invented the cell phone.
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