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Wilder Graves Penfield OM CC CMG FRS [1] (January 26, 1891 – April 5, 1976) was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon. [3] He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain such as the cortical homunculus.
The original Penfield town hall was built in 1895 and was deemed a Penfield landmark in 1981. This building is located at 2131 Five Mile Line Road. In the 1950s the downstairs of the town hall was the library and when the location of the Penfield town hall was changed, the library took over the entire building.
Penfield Library is the only academic library on campus. [23] It is named after Lida S. Penfield (1873–1956), once chair of the English department. The current 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m 2) facility opened in 1968, replacing a library of the same name in what
Penfield Baptist Church in Penfield, Georgia. Penfield died in 1828, aged 43, in Rye, New York. [3] [9] Upon his death, he bequeathed $2,500 to the Georgia Baptist Convention, with the stipulation that they match the amount. [10] The funds helped establish, in 1833, [11] the Mercer Institute in Penfield, Georgia, which was named for him.
Penfield homunculus, a distorted representation of the human body; Penfield Library, State University of New York at Oswego; Penfield Reef, extending from Fairfield, Connecticut to the Long Island Sound; Penfield Reef Light, Connecticut; Penfield (surname), including a list of people with the name; Penfield Outdoor Apparel, a Massachusetts ...
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Penfield spoke at the ceremonies welcoming the Marquis de Lafayette during his visit of June, 1825. His last commercial undertaking, a five-story flour mill, built in 1835, failed in part due to the Panic of 1837. Penfield died on August 24, 1840, and was interred next to his wife (who died August 18, 1828) in Oakwood Cemetery in Penfield, New ...
Penfield was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1900 [1] the son of Louis Chapin Penfield. [2] He attended Evanston High School and finished his final year at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. [1] In 1923, he graduated with a B.A. from Northwestern University. [1]