New England Carell, Ruth Gordon, John Krasinski, Edward Norton, Mark Wahlberg, and Matthew Perry. A full list of those from Massachusetts can be found here, and a listing of notable films and television series produced in the area here. Two popular American sports were invented in New England: basketball, invented by James Naismith (a Canadian) in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891, and volleyball, invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan, in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Additionally, Walter Camp is credited with developing modern American football in New Haven, Connecticut, in the 1870s and 1880s. New Hampshire Motor Speedway is an oval racetrack that has hosted
William McKendree Morgan on January 1, 1919. Morgan resigned from the Idaho Supreme Court in 1920, returning to private practice. However, he was returned to the Idaho Supreme Court in 1933 and served his death at age 72 in 1942. Morgan married Emma May Friedline of Moscow on July 22, 1895. They had two daughters, Pearl and Grace, and a son, Arthur Percival, who died at the age of seventeen months. William McKendree Morgan William McKendree Morgan (December 2, 1869 – October 16, 1942), was a lawyer and politician in Idaho and served for two separate periods on the Idaho Supreme Court. Born