Chester County and its people .. . chool for Gii-ls, at which school many a Chester County girl waseducated. Dr. Price was educated in the Friends School in WestChester, and at the academy of John Gummere in New Jersey,John Gummere being an eminent mathematician of the day inwhich he lived. Engaging next in a survey of New Castle County,Delaw-are, he made a map of that county, and later of the Stateof Delaware, by which means he earned the money to pay hisexpenses while piusuing the study of medicine. Entering Jeifer-son Medical College in the fall of 1848, he graduated from that insti-tution
Chester County and its people .. . chool for Gii-ls, at which school many a Chester County girl waseducated. Dr. Price was educated in the Friends School in WestChester, and at the academy of John Gummere in New Jersey,John Gummere being an eminent mathematician of the day inwhich he lived. Engaging next in a survey of New Castle County,Delaw-are, he made a map of that county, and later of the Stateof Delaware, by which means he earned the money to pay hisexpenses while piusuing the study of medicine. Entering Jeifer-son Medical College in the fall of 1848, he graduated from that insti-tution in September, 1850, and then locating in West Chester hehas ever since been engaged in the practice of both medicine andsurgery. At first he purchased the house at the southwest comerof South Church and Miner Streets, which he occupied until 1863,and then purchased the property at No. Ill South Church Street,fonnerly owned by Dr. Wilmer Worthington. Here he residedand had his office until 1885, when he sold his residence to Dr. Ml. ^-^llxA ^/CC^^^ AND ITS PEOPLE. 703 Dunn, noAV deceased, aud removed to a farm in the south cornerof the borough of ~\^est Chester, where he still resides, retaiiilnj»his office at No. 114 South Church Street. Dr. Price is still activelyengage<l in the practice of his profession. Since he has been a member of the Chester County Medi-cal Society, and has been twice vice-president of the Medical So-ciety of the State of Pennsylvania. He is also a member of theAmerican Medical Association, and of the College of Physiciansof Philadelphia. In Dr. Price married Rachel L. Thomas,daughter of Col. Philip D. Thomas, who at one time representedChester County in the Legislature of the State. Dr. Isaac A. Peunypacker, one of the early physicians of Ches-ter County, was born in Schuylkill Township, July 9, 1812, and wasa son of Matthias and Sarah (Anderson) Peunypacker, the latterbeing a daughter of Isaac Anderson. Isaac A. Pennypacker readmedicine
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