Bartlett, Josiah (21 November 1729–19 May 1795), physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, the son of Stephen Bartlett, a shoemaker, and Hannah Webster. Josiah Bartlett attended common school and at the age of sixteen was apprenticed to study medicine under Dr. Nehemiah Ordway of Amesbury. In 1750, seeking to set up his own practice, Bartlett settled in Kingston, New Hampshire, where he won quick acceptance for his fever treatments and his personal manner and demeanor. There, he married Mary Bartlett, a cousin from Newton, New Hampshire. Eight of the couple’s twelve children lived into adulthood....
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Bartlett, Josiah (1729-1795), physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence
Frank C. Mevers
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Rush, Benjamin (04 January 1746–19 April 1813), physician, professor of chemistry and of medicine, and social reformer
Robert B. Sullivan
Rush, Benjamin (04 January 1746–19 April 1813), physician, professor of chemistry and of medicine, and social reformer, was born in Byberry Township, Pennsylvania, thirteen miles northeast of Philadelphia, the son of John Rush, a farmer and gunsmith, and Susanna Hall Harvey. John Rush died when Benjamin was five years old. His mother ran a grocery store to support the family. She sent Benjamin at age eight to live with an uncle by marriage, the Reverend Dr. ...
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Benjamin Rush. Engraving by James Barton Longacreof a painting by Thomas Sully. Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-97104 ).
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Thornton, Matthew (1714-1803), physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence
Gregory C. Colati
Thornton, Matthew (1714–24 June 1803), physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in Ireland, the son of James Thornton and Elizabeth Jenkins. His family immigrated to America in 1717, settling first in Wiscasset, Maine, and soon after moving to the area around Worcester, Massachussetts. Both Wiscasset and Worcester had large Scotch-Irish populations....
