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Atlee, Washington Lemuel

(22 February 1808–06 September 1878)

Monique Bourque

https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1200033

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Atlee, Washington Lemuel (22 February 1808–06 September 1878), physician and surgeon, was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the son of Colonel William Pitt Atlee and Sarah Light. After an unsuccessful apprenticeship in a dry-goods store, he went at age sixteen to study medicine with his brother, ...

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date: 18 April 2021

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