Laurel and Hardy "nutty burglar" or as a Charlie Chaplin imitator. Oliver Hardy (January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia. By his late teens, Hardy was a popular stage singer and he operated a movie house in Milledgeville, Georgia, the Palace Theater, financed in part by his mother. For his stage name, he took his father's first name calling himself "Oliver Norvell Hardy" while offscreen his nicknames were "Ollie" and "Babe". The nickname "Babe" originated from an Italian barber near the Lubin Studios in Jacksonville, Florida who would rub Hardy's face with talcum powder and say
Oliver S. Powell Oliver S. Powell Oliver S. Powell was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from September 1, 1850, until June 30, 1852. Powell was born in Madrid, New York June 19, 1830. He was a farmer. Powell served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1870 to 1872 and was a Republican. He and his brother, Nathaniel, co-founded what is now River Falls, Wisconsin. Oliver owned a farm there and his brother built a sawmill there. Powell died on September 26, 1888 after being severely injured at