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Sir Mortimer Barnett Davis (February 6, 1866 – March 22, 1928) was a Jewish Canadian businessman and philanthropist. [1] The mansion that he built in Montreal's Golden Square Mile has been renamed Purvis Hall and is today owned by McGill University .
Compton is located on the plains of north central Illinois. The town is served by US Route 30 & US Route 51 and is about ten miles north of Mendota. [4] According to the 2010 census, Compton has a total area of 0.16 square miles (0.41 km 2), all land. [5]
Henriette Marie Meyer, Lady Davis, CBE (1872–1963) was a Jewish-Canadian philanthropist. She was known as Lady Davis after her husband, Sir Mortimer Davis , was knighted in 1917. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Albert Camarillo, right, a Chicano studies scholar and author of "Compton in My Soul," a memoir about growing up in Compton during the 1950s and 1960s, speaks at Color Compton on Aug. 24, 2024.
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Rush Davis: Compton and Century is my heart. Many generations of my family grew up here at 9917 Compton Ave. My grandmother worked at this laundromat [next door]. This was the only consistency I ...
The Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research (LDI) is the research arm of the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital and has strong academic ties to McGill University. Founded in 1969, the LDI has a roster of nearly 200 researchers, and it is an important North American biomedical research institute.
The new school district was approved by the voters by a ratio of 3-to-1 on November 12, 1966, and District 16 took over the school system on July 1, 1967. The voters then approved a bond issue of $4,000,000 in November 1967. [2] Lawsuits challenging the district's creation and bond issue continued until December 23, 1969.