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Clapp was born in Pasadena, California.He was named for his maternal grandfather Matthew G. Norton, a Winona, Minnesota lumberman who via the Laird, Norton Company was to help finance the Weyerhaeuser purchase of land in Washington State in 1900.
Medina Foundation College of Sapang Dalaga, Inc. is a private non-sectarian higher education institution run by the Medina College, Inc. in Sapang Dalaga, Misamis Occidental. It was established by Medina College, Inc. in June 1984, [ 1 ] exactly two decades after the main campus in Ozamiz City was founded.
Akron Community Foundation says $1.1 million balance will be transferred to new foundation in Medina County. Jennifer Roman Anzalone is director.
Amos Root was born in Medina, Ohio on December 9, 1839. [1] He began working as a jewelry manufacturer and took up beekeeping in his 20s as a hobby. Among his major contributions was a method to harvest honey without destroying the beehive.
June 11, 2016), better known by his pseudonym Herme Medina Agüero; was a Paraguayan poet, singer, harpist, orator and music performer. Opposer to Alfredo Stroessner 's regime and author of more than 120 poetic works, he is one of the representatives of the folklore of the Ñeembucú Department , receiving in 2006 a recognition as an ...
The Medina Irrigation Company (MICO) originally built much of the community as a workers camp, to house the approximately 1500 Mexican laborers (and their families) who constructed Medina Dam. It was the fourth largest dam in the United States at its completion in 1913. The dam has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In 1869, Amos Root founded the A.I. Root Company in Medina as a manufacturer of beehives and beekeeping equipment, and the town became a center for beehive manufacturing. The Root Company had 97 workers in 1886, making it the town's largest employer. [7] A disastrous fire hit the village in 1848, destroying the entire business district.
The Medina Dam is a hollow-masonry type dam built in 1911 and 1912 by the Medina Irrigation Company in what became Mico, Texas, USA. Medina Lake extends north of it in northeastern Medina County and southeastern Bandera County .