Samuel Coates collection 1772-1806 Coates, Samuel collection

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Samuel Coates collection 1772-1806 Coates, Samuel collection

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This collection contains correspondence, documents, and a poem related to Philadelphia merchant Samuel Coates, including incoming correspondence concerning nautical travel in 18th-century New York and contemporary opinions on the American Revolution. Four items relate to the late Doctor Samuel Cooper, for whom Coates served as estate executor.

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William L. Clements Library

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William L. Clements Library

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William L. Clements Library

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William Clements was a Bay City businessman who served as regent from 1910 to 1933. An Early interest in collecting books crystallized around gathering rare books related to American history that were printed before 1800. In 1921, he gave his collection of books, manuscripts and maps to the university and provided a building to house them, which was opened in 1923. Mr. Clements continued to serve on the Committee of Management of the Clements Library until his death in 1934. He wo...

Dimsdale, Robert I.

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Lewis, Enoch, 1776-1856

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Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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The Pennsylvania Hospital was established in 1751. The original section of its building was designed by Samuel Rhoads; construction began in 1755. From the description of Photographs, [ca. 1910]. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122548463 The Pennsylvania Hospital was founded in 1751 by Dr. Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin. Chartered by the Colonial Government, the Pennsylvania Hospital has the distinction of being the first hospital in America to care for the sick...

Pemberton, Joseph.

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Cooper, Samuel, 1772-1798

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Born in Talbot County, Maryland in 1772, Samuel Cooper studied medicine in Philadelphia, Pa. and then returned to Easton, Md. He later practiced medicine in Philadelphia, where he died during the yellow fever epidemic in 1798. Cooper worked with Samuel Coates, the manager if the Pennsylvania Hospital. From the description of Estate records, 1798-1806. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122459615 ...

Coates, Samuel, 1748-1830

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Samuel Coates (1748-1830) was a prominent Quaker merchant, who was Treasurer of the Library Company of Philadelphia (1784-1793), Secretary and later President of the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital (1786-1825), a member of the Overseers of the Public Schools of Philadelphia. (1812-1823) and a director of the original Bank of the United States (1800-1812). Coates was born in Philadelphia on August 24,1748, the son of Samuel Coates and Mary Langdale. His grandfather Thomas Coates ha...