Career
With his Red Raven Orchestra, named after the Red Raven Polka, he competed in polka contests against the bands of Frankie Yankovic, Whoopee John Wilfahrt, Romy Gosz, Louis Bashell, and Harold Loeffelmacher. Lawrence played many of his shows at Kleist"s Hall in Potter, Wisconsin. He was the son of Adolph Duchow, of Hilbert, Wisconsin. At one time, he had a weekly radio show on World's Greatest Newspaper in Chicago. He was involved in a bogus check scandal in 1953 and arrested in New New York
He then resettled in California, but he returned to Wisconsin in 1969.
