Prominent Jews of America; a collection of biographical sketches of Jews who have distinguished themselves in commercial, professional and religious endeavor . oportions, and from the profits of same he has also ac-quired a considerable amount of real estate. His wife, who was before her marriage Miss Pessa Lewis, Iras been awonderful wife and mother and has trained their boys in such a manner asto make them worthy custodians of the multiplicity of interests which theirfather will some day turn over to them. Four of the boys are already assisting their father in the conduct of thebusiness, whi


Prominent Jews of America; a collection of biographical sketches of Jews who have distinguished themselves in commercial, professional and religious endeavor . oportions, and from the profits of same he has also ac-quired a considerable amount of real estate. His wife, who was before her marriage Miss Pessa Lewis, Iras been awonderful wife and mother and has trained their boys in such a manner asto make them worthy custodians of the multiplicity of interests which theirfather will some day turn over to them. Four of the boys are already assisting their father in the conduct of thebusiness, while the youngest child is still in school. Both Mr. and Mrs. Davis have devoted much of their time and wealthto the promotion of the various charitable interests, not only of their city butthroughout the nation, prominent among them being the Denver and LosAngeles hospitals, all the Yishivas, the Hebrew Beth El and Cemetery Asso-ciation. Mr. Davis is a prominent member of the Odd Fellows and Eagles, andhis various beneficent activities have woven themselves into the lives of manypeople in Jamestown, who have reason to be grateful for his able BEN DUBERSTEIN The shaping of our lives is our own divinely appointed task. We maymake them things of beauty or ugliness, just as we will. No opposition istoo difficult, no handicap too great, if the fine, free spirit of the man goes forthbravely to meet them. In Minsker, Guberne, Russia, forty-two years ago there began a life that 60


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