John Morgan (physician)
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John Morgan, "founder of Public Medical Instruction in America," was co-founder of the Medical College at the University of Pennsylvania, the first medical school in Colonial America. He served as the
Mary Hopkinson, Morgan's wife, depicted in portrait by Benjamin West, c. 1764
University of Pennsylvania
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The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of
John Morgan (physician)
…British America. After a classical education at West Nottingham Academy in Colora, Maryland, he graduated from the College of Philadelphia, now the University of Pennsylvania, in 1757. He fought for the British during the Seven Years' War, and was commissioned as a lieutenant and served as a surgeon on the western frontier…
A 1765 admission ticket to "A Course of Lectures" given by Dr. John Morgan, the founder and first professor of medicine at Penn's Medical School
A c. 1815 illustration of the Ninth Street campus, including the medical department (left) and the college building (right)
An illustration of Penn's College Hall from a pocket guide to the Centennial Exhibition in 1876
A c. 1933 postcard showing the Upper Quad section of the Quad Dormitories looking north to Memorial Tower