Stringtown, Oklahoma while Bonnie Parker was visiting her mother, Clyde Barrow and two associates were drinking alcohol at a dance in Stringtown (illegal under Prohibition). They were approached by Sheriff C. G. Maxwell and his deputy, at which time Clyde opened fire, killing deputy Eugene C. Moore. That was the first killing of a lawman by what was later known as the Barrow Gang, a total which would eventually amount to nine slain officers. In the 1940s during World War II, Fritz Johann Hansgirg, the Austrian inventor of magnesium and heavy water processes was interned at the U.S. alien internment camp located
Margaret à Barrow Margaret à Barrow Margaret à Barrow (1500–1560/69) was an English lady, well known for her learning. She is sometimes referred to as Margaret Aborough (a variant of à Barrow) or as Lady Margaret Elyot. Margaret was the daughter of Sir Thomas Aborough or à Barrow and she was one of a small group of children educated at the home of Thomas More. Around 1520, Margaret Aborough married the author Thomas Elyot. Margaret and Thomas sat for portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger at the home of Thomas More. No oil paintings of these portraits survive. The drawings are held by