Born in Hicksville in 1862, Daeida Hartell Wilcox Beveridge co-developed and named the Los Angeles, California, suburb of Hollywood in 1887, and with her first husband, H.H. Wilcox, led development efforts there and helped establish much of its civic infrastructure, including the city hall, library, police station, primary school, city park, and much of the commercial district; after Wilcox's death, she remarried the son of a California governor, continued to promote Hollywood, and died in 1914. Born in Hicksville in 1869, Amelia Swilley Bingham began her theatrical career there, moved to New York, debuted on Broadway at the Bijou Theatre in 1893, gained wide acclaim for her performances, later leased the theater and formed her own theatrical stock company while continuing to act in her own productions, served as the first president of the Professional Woman's League as a pioneering woman producer and director, and died in New York in 1927.