Background
Dávila (birth name: José Antonio Dávila Morales ) was born and raised in Bayamon, Puerto Rico into a literary family. He received both his primary and secondary education here and went to high school in Santurce, San Juan.
Dávila (birth name: José Antonio Dávila Morales ) was born and raised in Bayamon, Puerto Rico into a literary family. He received both his primary and secondary education here and went to high school in Santurce, San Juan.
In 1918, he enrolled in the University of Puerto Rico and later transferred to Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia where he studied medicine, earning his medical degree in 1924. After graduating he established a medical practice there.
Dávila became fatally ill and had to abandon his medical practice. He was interned at the Saranac Lake Hospital in New York, but returned to Puerto Rico in 1930. He is now buried in the city"s Porta Coeli Cemetery, next to his father.
His main source of inspiration was his father, the poet and Mayor of Bayamon, Virgilio Dávila.
The City of Bayamon has named a school and an avenue after him.