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Fothergill, John, 1712-1780

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John Fothergill was an English Quaker physician and naturalist, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1770. From the description of Letters, 1737-1750, to Charles Alston. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 86165478 Physician Joseph Carson taught medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The College of Philadelphia's Medical School, founded in 1765, became known as the University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Medicine In 1779. ...

Martin, Jacob

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Darlington, William, 1782-1863

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William Darlington was a physician and naturalist. From the description of Papers, 1777-1863. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122589373 From the description of Letters, 1836-1857. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122316436 From the guide to the William Darlington papers, 1777-1863, 1777-1863, (American Philosophical Society) From the guide to the William Darlington letters, 1836-1857, 1836-1857, (Am...

Watson, James

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Epithet: of Add MS 22910 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000979.0x000138 Epithet: Lord Provost of Glasgow 1872 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000979.0x0001be Epithet: Deputy to the British Resident at Amsterdam British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000979....

Kenny, James

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Moore, Samuel Preston, 1710-1785

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Samuel Preston Moore, Philadelphia, Pa., physician, was born in 1710. He married Hannah Hill on 12 Aug. 1739. Moore was a consultant to the Pennsylvania Hospital and the hospital's treasurer. He also held positions as Trustee of the General Loan Office and Pennsylvania's Provinical Treasurer. Moore died on 15 July 1785. From the description of Autograph letters signed, 1758-1767. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122579449 ...

Marshall, Humphry, 1722-1801

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Humphry Marshall was a self-educated Quaker botanist, born and raised in Chester County, Pa. With the encouragement and assistance of his cousin, John Bartram, and other scientific mentors in the U.S. and Britain, Marshall became an accomplished "practical botanist" and by the mid-1760's had established a profitable business collecting and identifying plants and selling them to plant collectors throughout the U.S. and Europe. The botanical garden he established in Chester County was...

Crèvecoeur, Michel-Guillaume Jean de, 1735-1813

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Mendenhall, Moses.

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Fothergill, Samuel, 1715-1772

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Samuel Fothergill (1715–1772), was a Quaker minister from Yorkshire, England. He was the sixth son of John Fothergill and his wife Margaret, well-to-do Quakers of considerable means at Carr End, Wensleydale, Yorkshire. He was born in November 1715. He was educated at Briggflats, near Sedbergh, and afterwards at a school at Sutton in Cheshire, kept by his uncle, Thomas Hough. At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed to a Quaker shopkeeper at Stockport. As soon as his apprenticeship was over,...

Marshall, Moses, 1758-1813

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Humphry Marshall Humphry Marshall was born in West Bradford, Pennsylvania, in 1722, the eighth child of Abraham and Mary Hunt Marshall. His parents, Quaker immigrants from Derbyshire, England, provided him with only a rudimentary English education, which ceased altogether at age 12, when he was apprenticed to a stonemason. However, from very early in life, Marshall was drawn to the study of natural history and continued his education on his own, reading widely. With the ...

Watson, John

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