Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . ducation of Youth in Pensilvania. Itbegan its existence in 1749 with the organization of a board oftrustees, which established the Academy of Philadelphia, and onFebruary i, 1750. purchased a building, then incomplete and in-tended for a place of worship, where the celebrated revivalist,Whitefield, and other evangelists might preach, and which bounditself by the terms of purchase to establish a charity school, a planwhich had been a part of the project of those who had started thenew building, but which had never been carried into act
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . ducation of Youth in Pensilvania. Itbegan its existence in 1749 with the organization of a board oftrustees, which established the Academy of Philadelphia, and onFebruary i, 1750. purchased a building, then incomplete and in-tended for a place of worship, where the celebrated revivalist,Whitefield, and other evangelists might preach, and which bounditself by the terms of purchase to establish a charity school, a planwhich had been a part of the project of those who had started thenew building, but which had never been carried into actualoperation. The founders of this institution were naturally the most dis-tinguished men of the town. James Logan, a man of eminentclassical attainments and line scholarship, had shown his interestin the subject of medicine by permitting Dr. Cadwalader, at a timewhen the prejudice against anatomy was very great, to use for hisdemonstrations a building belonging to him, situated on Secondstreet al)ove Walnut, on the site afterward occupied by the Bank 124. David Hajcs Agnew Physician; educator; author: establislied Phil-adelphia school of operative surgery and thepathological museum of the Philadelphia Hos-pital; born 1818; died 1892. Reproduced forthis work from colored photograph in the Mc-Alister collection. The Medical Profession of Pennsylvania. Benjamin Iranklin himself need only benamed; Dr. A\illiam Shippen was the grandson of Edward Ship-pen, the first mayor of the city of Philadelphia under the charterof i/Oi, his father being Joseph Shippen, a member of the cele-brated Junto. He himself was a founder of the College of New-Jersey at Princeton, and one of its first trustees. He was a mem-ber of the continental congress and otherwise a most distmguishedcitizen, while his son, William Shippen, jr., became so distin-guished that the father was usually spoken of, not by his propername, Imt as William Shippen, senior. Of others might be men-tioned Dr. Lloyd Zachary, Philip
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