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Issue (surname Montgomery) :
Janet Tillotson, of N. Y.,
John Howard, of N. Y., attorney-at-law, m. Annie G., dau. of James Fitch, M. D., of N. Y.,
Issue (surname Montgomery) : Henry Eglinton, James Reginald, John Howard,
James Lynch, of N. Y., insurance broker,
Edward Livingston, of N. Y., Treas. Mercantile Trust Co., m. Mary W., dau. of William M. Goodrich, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Issue (surname Montgomery) : Helen Eglinton, Margaret Morse,
Sophia Elizabeth, m. Woodbury G. Langdon, of N. Y., Issue (surname Langdon) : a dau., Oswald Crathorne, d. y.,
Adelaide Henrietta,
Elizabeth Henrietta Philips,
Henry Eglinton,
Hardman Philips Alan,
OSWALD CRATHORNE, of Phila., d. Jany. 19, 1871, m. Cathe- rine Gertrude, dau. of George W. Lynch of N. Y.,
Issue (surname Montgomery) :
Charles Howard, of Phila., m. Fanny, dau. of C. W. Hickman, George Lynch, d. y., Henry Eglinton, civil engineer, d. unm. Feb. 10, 1877, Mary Ann, d. y.,
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Thomas Lynch, of Phila.,
AUSTIN JAMES, formerly of Chester Co., now of Phila., real estate broker, m. Sarah Cordelia, dau. of Charles Swift Riché of Phila.,
JAMES EGLINTON, grad. A. B. (Princ.), brevet Major U. S. Vols., appointed U. S. Consul to Geneva in 1877, transferred to Leipsic in 1879, and to Brussels in 1881, m., 1st, Ann, dau. of James Tilghman of Md. (descend. of TILGHMAN), and, 2nd, Mary S., dau. of Hon. Thomas Read Walker of Utica, N. Y.,
Issue by 1st wife (surname Montgomery) :
Lloyd Philips, of N. Y.,
Elizabeth Philips, of N. Y., Ann Caroline, d. y., Arthur Eglinton, of N. Y., Edward Lea, of N. Y.,
Issue by 2nd wife (surname Montgomery) : Hugh Eglinton,
CHARLES HOWARD, d. unm. May 8, 1848,
SOPHIA HENRIETTA CHEW, d. y. Dec. 22, 1836,
BENJAMIN CHEW, of Phila. bar, d. unm. July 16, 1856, HARDMAN PHILIPS, of Phila. bar, d. unm. Jany. 22, 1870,
MARY CRATHORNE, m. Eugene Tillotson Lynch (son of Judge James Lynch) of Flushing, L. I., Issue (surname Lynch) : Henry Montgomery, d. y., Eugene Tillotson, Elizabeth Henrietta.
HARRIET CHEW, b. Oct. 22, 1775, dau. of the Councillor, d. Phila. Apr. 10, 1861, m. 1800 Charles Carroll, son of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, by his w. Mary Darnall.
Issue (surname CARROLL) :
CHARLES, b. July 19, 1801, m. Mary D. Lee, see p. 358, ELIZABETH, m. Aaron Burr Tucker, see p. 359, MARY SOPHIA, m. Richard H. Bayard, see p. 359, BENJAMIN CHEW, d. y. Aug., 1806, BENJAMIN CHEW, d. y.,
.
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Chew-Carroll branch.
HARRIET, m. John Lee, see p. 360,
LOUISA, m. Isaac Rand Jackson, see p. 361.
CHARLES CARROLL, b. July 19, 1801, gr'dson of the Councillor, page 357, of Doughoregan Manor, d. Dec. 2, 1862, m. Mary Digges Lee.
Issue (surname CARROLL) :
MARY, m. Eliseo Acosta, M. D., of Paris, Issue (surname Acosta) :
Mary,
CHARLES, m. Caroline Thompson of Staunton, Va., THOMAS LEE, d. y.,
JOHN LEE, of Doughoregan Manor, attorney-at-law, was in the Senate of Maryland 1867-75, Governor of Maryland 1876-79, m., 1st, Anita, dau. of Royal Phelps of New York (she d. Mch. 24, 1873), and, 2nd, Carter Thompson,
Issue by 1st wife (surname Carroll) :
Charles Lee, d. inf.,
Mary Louisa,
Anita,
Royal Phelps,
Charles,
Albert Henry, d. inf.,
Mary Irene,
John Lee,
Mary Helen,
Issue by 2nd wife (surname Carroll) : Philip Acosta,
LOUISA, m. George Cavendish Taylor of the British Army, son of Frederick F. Taylor, Esq., of Chyknell House, Co. Salop, England, by his wife Juliana, dau. of Richard, Baron Waterpark,
Issue (surname Taylor) :
Charles George,
Julia Carroll,
Beatrice, John Launcelot, Anita Louisa,
OSWALD, d. y.,
ALBERT HENRY, served in the Confederate army, and was
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killed near Martinsburg, Sept. 7, 1862, m. Mary Cornelia, dau. of William George Read by his w. Sophia C. Howard, Issue (surname Carroll) : Mary Sophia, Ellinor,
Agnes,
THOMAS LEE,
ROBERT GOODLOE HARPER, of Baltimore, m., 1st, Ellinor Thompson, of Virginia (d. s. p. 1864), and, 2nd, Mary D. Lee of Frederick Co., Md., Issue (surname Carroll) : Albert, Charles,
HELEN SOPHIA, m. Charles Oliver O'Donnell of Baltimore, attorney-at-law,
Issue (surname O'Donnell) : John, Mary Acosta, Aileen.
ELIZABETH CARROLL, grddau. of the Councillor, see p. 357, d. about 1844, m. Aaron Burr Tucker, M. D.
Issue (surname TUCKER) :
HARRIET, d. y., CHARLES [CARROLL], took surname CARROLL, m. Susan Howell of Baltimore, Issue (surname Carroll) : John Howell, Charles Howell, ST. GEORGE, of Baltimore.
MARY SOPHIA CARROLL, grddau. of the Councillor, see p. 357, m. Richard Henry Bayard of Delaware, b. Wilmington 1796, bro- ther of James A. Bayard, U. S. Senator 1851-1864 and 1867, and son of James A. Bayard, U. S. Senator 1804-1813, by his w. Anne, dau. of Richard Bassett, Gov. of Del. Richard Henry Bayard grad. A. B. (Princ.) 1814, practised law, served as U. S. Senator 1836-7 and also 1841-5, and was chargé d'affaires in Belgium in 1850-3. He d. in Philada. Mch. 4, 1868.
Issue (surname BAYARD) :
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Chew-Bayard branch.
HARRIET, d. y.,
MARY LOUISA, m., 1st, William Henry Beck (d. Florence, Italy, 1859), and, 2nd, Col. Manlio Bettarina of Italy, Issue (surname Beck) :
Charles Bayard, d. unm. at Milan, Italy,
CAROLINE, m. Henry Baring Powel, son of John Hare Powel of Phila., see SHIPPEN,
ELIZABETH, m. Frederick Henry Rich of London, Colonel in the Royal Army,
Issue (surname Rich) :
Henry,
Charles,
George,
Mary,
Maud, m. Frederick Crooke, of the Royal Army, Carlisle, Howard,
Blanche,
Amy,
John,
CHARLES CARROLL, Lieut. U. S. N., d. unm.,
RICHARD BASSETT, was Secretary of Legation to Belgium, d. Dec. 25, 1878, m. Dec. 20, 1860 his cousin Ellen Gilmor Howard,
Issue (surname Bayard) :
Ellen Howard,
Richard Howard,
Jean Gilmor, d. inf.,
HARRIET, d. 1865, m. Christian Börs, of Norway, Norwegian Consul to Boston,
Issue (surname Börs) : Bayard,
LOUISA, m. R. Ashhurst Bowie, of the Phila. bar, Issue (surname Bowie) : Richard Henry Bayard.
HARRIET CARROLL, grddau. of the Councillor, p. 358, m. John Lee of Needwood, Frederick Co., Maryland.
Issue (surname LEE) :
MARY DIGGES, d. Nov. 8, 1868, m. Jonathan Letterman, Surgeon U. S. A., Medical Director during the Civil War,
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Chew-Lee branch.
Issue (surname Letterman) : Mary Catherine, Anna Madeleine, HARRIET CARROLL, d. y., CHARLES CARROLL, of New York City, M. D., m. Helen Parrish of Phila., Issue (surname Lee) : Sarah R., Richard Henry, d. y.,
Thomas Sim, James P., Charles Carroll, d. y., Mary Helen, d. y., Helen,
THOMAS SIM, Rector of the R. C. Cathedral at Baltimore.
LOUISA CARROLL, grddau. of the Councillor, page 358, d. about 1870, m. Isaac Rand Jackson, chargé d'affaires in Denmark 1841-42, d. Copenhagen July 27, 1842.
Issue (surname JACKSON) : LOUISA CARROLL, d. y.,
HARRIET CARROLL, dec'd, m. Leonard Douglas H. Currie, of the British Army, Issue (surname Currie) : Leonard, Arthur,
Frances,
CHARLES CARROLL, of New York City, m. Minnie Coster, since dec'd,
Issue (surname Jackson) : Bessie,
OSWALD, of New York City, merchant, m. Ella Willing (tak- ing the surname of her mother), dau. of Dr. E. Peace of Phila. by his w. Caroline Willing,
Issue (surname Jackson) :
Louisa Carroll, Oswald,
MARY ELLEN, m. Nalbro' Frazier Jr. of Phila.,
Issue (surname Frazier) :
Louisa Helena Carroll.
JOHN MIFFLIN.
JOHN MIFFLIN, grandfather of the Councillor of that name, and son of John Mifflin of Wiltshire, England, emigrated to Pennsylvania at an early date. He m. at the house of Henry Lewis near Philadel- phia Feb. 6, 1683-4, Elizabeth Hadley from Derbyshire, and had five children : Edward, George, John, Jonathan, and Jane, of whom GEORGE MIFFLIN, father of the Councillor, m. Phila. Feb. 18, 1713-4 Esther, dau. of Hugh and Deborah Cordry, and had six children.
JOHN MIFFLIN, the Councillor, was b. Phila. Jany. 18, 1714-5, and became a merchant of some prominence. He was a Director of the Library twelve years. As a representative of the Quaker portion of the community, he was elected a Common Councilman of the City in 1747, and an Alderman in 1751. He was holding the latter rank when he was made a member of the Provincial Council, at the meeting called on Sunday, Nov. 2, 1755, upon receipt of news that the Indians had attacked the settlement at Auchwick and Juniata, and the people were coming to Philadelphia for protection. Mifflin was one of the commissioners appointed by Act of Assembly to spend the 60,000l., which, after a long struggle, the House was induced to grant " for the King's use," a Quaker phrase which meant the defence of the Prov- ince. Mifflin d. before 2 mo. 4, 1759, bu. on that day in Friends' ground. He m., 1st, Elizabeth - -, who d. Phila. June 8, 1753, and he m., 2nd, in 1755, Sarah (d. Phila. May 16, 1816), dau. of William Fishbourne by his 2nd w. Jane, widow of John Galloway, and dau. of Edw. Roberts, Mayor of Phila. (Sarah Miffin m., 2nd, John Beale Bordley of Md.)
Issue by 1st wife :
ELIZABETH, d. y. 5, 18, 1742,
MARY, d. y. 4, 3, 1742,
THOMAS, b. about 1744, m. Sarah Morris, see next page, GEORGE, m. Martha Morris, see p. 368,
SARAH, d. y. 2, 19, 1750,
ELIZABETH, d. y. 10, 2, 1750,
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JOHN, d. y. 8, 9, 1752, Issue by 2nd wife :
SARAH. d. y.,
WILLIAM, d. y. bu. F. M. 6, 11, 1757,
JOHN FISHBOURNE, b. Apr. 21, 1759, grad. Coll. of Phila. 1775, was wounded in the defence of "Fort Wilson," 3rd & Walnut, in 1779, practised law in Phila., was one of the executors of the will of Gov. John Penn, also a Trustee of the University for several years, and member of the Amer. Philos. Society, d. May 13, 1813, bu. St. Peter's, m. June 18, 1788 Clementina, dau. of John Ross of Phila., mer- chant,-she was b. Nov. 28, 1769, d. Jany. 12, 1848,- Issue :
SARAH, b. Apr. 28, 1789, d. s. p. Jany. 14, 1872, JOHN Ross, b. June 22, 1790, grad. A. B. (U. of P.), d. s. p. Apr. 14, 1825,
MARGARET, b. June 2, 1792, d. s. p. Sep. 1, 1804, CLEMENTINA, b. Feb. 8, 1795, d. y. July 24, 1809, CHARLES, d. unm. in New Orleans, ELIZABETH, of Phila., unm.
THOMAS MIFFLIN, b. Phila. before Jany. 10, 1744, son of the Councillor, at one time held the highest office in the United States, being President of the Continental Congress after George Washington resigned the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Army. Indeed, Thomas Mifflin and Gen. Anthony Wayne were the most distinguished Pennsylvanians of the last century who were natives of the state.
Mifflin was a graduate of the College of Phila., since known as the University of Pennsylvania, where he finished his course at the age of sixteen. He was then placed in the counting-house of William Coleman. Upon attaining his majority, he made a tour of Europe, as was usual with the sons of the wealthy Quakers before settling down to trade ; and he spent considerable time in England and France. On his return, he entered into business with his brother. Active and industrious, Thomas Mifflin succeeded in business. Open-hearted and vivacious, he became popular. Public spirited and forming decided views on current topics, he expressed himself strongly against the right of the British Parliament to tax the Colonies; and, being a member of the Society of Friends, he was an important addition to the party of resistance. A natural orator and with his strong feelings
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sharing fully in the "Spirit of '76," he attained in his speeches at critical times that eloquence called for by themes which were shaking a continent, and it may be truly said that the cause of America was more than once saved by his powers of persuasion over a colony of shopkeepers or ambitionless husbandmen. He was elected to the Assembly as one of the two Burgesses from the City in 1771, and was re-elected the following year. When the news came from Boston of the closing up of the port by Act of Parliament, he was anxious for Phila- delphia to send back an unequivocal expression of sympathy. This he advocated with warmth at the meeting of principal citizens at the city tavern, and, it having been arranged that Dickinson should under- take to speak for the opposition, should counsel a message couched in moderate language, but should express himself strongly in favor of some answer, the patriots gained the considerable victory of having Philadelphia take any notice of the news. To work up public senti- ment in favor of a Continental Congress, Dickinson, Thomson, and Mifflin made a "pleasure tour," as they called it, through two or three frontier counties, peopled largely by the phlegmatic Germans, and brought about a convention of county committees meeting at the same time as the Assembly (see Pa. Mag. Hist. &c., Vol. 2, p. 411). At the appointment of the first delegates to Congress, Mifflin was one of those chosen, and was the most determined Whig of them all. He was re-elected to the Assembly in 1774, and was sent also to the Con- gress which met on May 10, 1775.
On hearing of the battle of Lexington, he urged the people of Philadelphia at a town meeting to persevere in the cause. "Let us not," said he, " be bold in declarations, and afterwards cold in action. Let not the patriotic feeling of to-day be forgotten to-morrow, nor have it said of Philadelphia, that she passed noble resolutions, slept upon them, and afterwards forgot them." Although a Quaker, he became Major of a regiment for the defence of the Province, and at the organization of a Continental Army repaired to the encampment before Boston, and became aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief.
Irving, in his Life of Washington, says that every day some of the officers and occasionally members of Congress would dine with Washington. "Though social, however, he was not convivial in his habits. * He would retire early from the board, leaving an aide-de-camp or one of his officers to take his place. Col. Mifflin was the first person who officiated as aide-de-camp. He was a Phila- delphia gentleman of high respectability, who had accompanied him
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from that city, and received his appointment shortly after their arrival at Cambridge." Bancroft says : "Mifflin charmed by his activity, spirit, and obliging behavior." In August, 1775, Washington ap- pointed him Quarter-Master-General, as he writes to Richard Henry Lee, " from a thorough persuasion of his integrity, my own experi- ence of his activity, and finally because he stands unconnected with either of these governments or with this, that, or the other man ; for between you and me there is more in this than you can easily imagine." In October, 1775, the City of Philadelphia again elected Mifflin to the Assembly. On May 19, 1776, he was made a Brigadier-General, and entered upon active duties in the field. In the dark days of the war, he was eminently useful as a recruiting officer. On Nov. 23, 1776, he was sent by Washington to Congress to beg for re-inforce- ments ; and he fulfilled his mission, says Bancroft, " with patriotism and ability." Finding Pennsylvania in confusion, disputing over its new Constitution, he had hard work to get the Associators for Defence into motion. He appealed to the Assembly and to the old Committee of Safety ; he spoke at a town meeting amid great applause; the next day, he reviewed the city militia ; in due time he marched about 1500 men up to Trenton. Others followed, and although they enlisted for but a short period, to obtain recruits on any terms was something ; the British were advancing through New Jersey, and Philadelphia was in danger. Congress sent him on Dec. 10th into the adjoining counties to rouse the people, to call them in an inclement season of the year to leave their firesides, and undertake weary marches, and, moreover, to gather their own stores. Four members of the Assembly accompanied him. They called meetings everywhere, Mifflin explaining the neces- sity of the hour from pulpits and from judges' benches. They suc- ceeded in bringing out the militia of Lancaster County and the fron- tier region, although a large part of Eastern Pennsylvania remained supine or disaffected ; and Mifflin participated in the movements fol- lowing the battle of Trenton at the head of a considerable force. He came to Philadelphia again June 11, 1777, with messages to Congress, and that body intrusted to him and DuCoudray the arrangement of the defences of the River Delaware.
Bancroft, in his celebrated History of the United States, has pierced the halo which surrounded every Revolutionary leader, and has brought them all with their incapacity and their intrigues into public gaze : but it may be doubted how far the character of any individual deserves the strong terms of the rhetorician. Mifflin is severely attacked.
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We learn that in 1777, when the British had fitted out an expedition against Philadelphia, he rendered no service whatever; that on the 7th of November, when elected by Congress a member of the Board of War, he was leaving a post of which he had neglected the duties, &ct. Such conduct, if indeed his, was very remarkable in one who had just before been so indefatigable in his labors, and may be ex- plained by the weakening of his health, which his previous overwork is known to have caused. Mifflin may not have been a paragon of virtue, his private life may have been bad : but that he was idle is contrary to all experience of his public life : that he was lukewarm is incredible. That the army was not supplied properly, is due to other causes, the depreciation of the Continental money, the disaffection in one part of the country, and the devastation in another. He is said to have joined in the cry against Washington. But any honest man could have believed in the expediency of a change of commanders : the gloom over America after the loss of Philadelphia was such as to make people lose all confidence in their General, and when the brilliant vic- tory of Gates at Saratoga came to brighten the prospect, it was natural to suggest that Gates was more competent. Gen. Conway had writ- ten, " Heaven has been determined to save your country or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." The words reached Washington's ears, but Conway refused to apologize, and told Mifflin of his interview with the Commander-in-Chief. Mifflin was temporary head of the Board of War, but Gates became its President on Nov. 27th, and Mifflin declared to Gates that Conway's letter was a " collection of just sentiments." Congress, in which, John Adams said, there was always a faction against Washington, appointed Con- way Inspector-General, and referred him to the Board of War, inde- pendent of Washington, for the regulations to be introduced. The internment of the army at Valley Forge called forth the remonstrances of the Continental Congress and of the Supreme Executive Council and the Assembly of Pennsylvania. Washington, in reply, says Ban- croft, laid "deserved blame" on Mifflin for neglect of duty as Quarter- Master, and pointed out the distressed condition of the troops. Con- gress in January appointed Gates, Mifflin, and Pickering of the Board of War to join a committee from Congress for consulting with Wash- ington at headquarters upon a complete reform in the administration of the army. Bancroft says that those who had cavilled at Wash- ington, being unable to shake the confidence of the people, wished their words benevolently interpreted or forgotten, and Gates and Mifflin
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as well as Pickering had themselves excused from service with the com- mittee. Mifflin was made a Major-General in February, 1778, and the Quarter-Master-General's duties were intrusted to Gen. Greene on the 2nd of March. When, however, Mifflin requested leave to join the army, Congress desired Washington to make inquiry into his con- duct, and if the distresses of the army were attributable to him or to his inferiors, to order a court-martial. Mifflin, never obtaining an examination, offered his resignation, but Congress refused to accept it, and, notwithstanding the state of his health, he served all through the war. Congress, which seems always to have trusted him, placed in his hands a million dollars to settle the claims incurred during his administration of the Quarter-Master-General's department, and in January, 1780, appointed him member of a board to devise means for retrenching expenditure.
In 1782, he was sent back to the Continental Congress as a dele- gate from Pennsylvania, and on Nov. 3, 1783, became President of that honorable body, receiving George Washington's resignation of the command of the armies on the 23rd of December, and replying in beautiful and impressive words. Mifflin retired from Congress after presiding over it a year. In 1785, he was Speaker of the Assembly of Pennsylvania. In 1787, he was a member of the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States.
In 1788, he was chosen to the Supreme Executive Council of Penn- sylvania, and was made its President. He continued under that title the head of the State until the Constitution of 1790 went into effect, being also President of the Convention which framed that Constitu- tion. When the popular election was held to choose the first Gov- ernor, Thomas Mifflin received a large majority of the votes, Gen. Arthur St. Clair being his opponent. Mifflin was inaugurated Dec. 21, 1790, and by re-elections served for nine years. The period is chiefly memorable for the " Whiskey Insurrection," by the people around Pittsburgh in opposition to the excise. Governor Mifflin participated in the military preparations to suppress it, making a journey through the lower tier of counties to raise Pennsylvania's quota of the troops, as the militia could not be ordered into action, and, when naturally he could have expected the command of troops whose operations were to be in his own state, he laid aside his personal dignity by serving as military subordinate to the Governor of Virginia, who had been of inferior rank in the Revolutionary Army. The Constitution of Penn- sylvania did not allow a Governor to serve more than three terms in
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succession, and therefore Mifflin was obliged to leave the office in 1799. He was however chosen to the Assembly. The House met at Lancaster, and he began to attend its sessions ; but in a short time, he was taken ill, and on the 20th of January, 1800, in the 57th year of his age, breathed the last breath of an eventful life. His was a life, according to William Rawle, who wrote his biography, " brilliant in its outset-troubled and perplexed at a period more advanced- again distinguished, prosperous, and happy-finally clouded by pov- erty and oppressed by creditors-in patriotic principle never changing -in public action never faltering-in personal friendship sincerely warm-in relieving the distressed always active and humane-in his own affairs improvident-in the business of others scrupulously just."
He m. at Fair Hill Meeting Mch. 4, 1767 Sarah, dau. of Morris Morris. They had no issue.
GEORGE MIFFLIN, son of the Councillor, was a merchant of Phila- delphia, and for some time in partnership with his elder brother. He d. July 14, 1785. He m. Oct. 15, 1772 Martha, dau. of Joseph Mor- ris of Phila., merchant, by his w. Martha.
Issue :
THOMAS, m. Sarah Large, see below,
ELIZABETH, m. Caspar Wistar, see p. 369.
THOMAS MIFFLIN, as above, gr'dson of the Councillor, was a mer- chant of Phila., d. April, 1820, m. June 20, 1799 Sarah, dau. of Ebenezer Large.
Issue :
JAMES LARGE, b. June 18, 1800, d. Sep. 25, 1872, m. June, 1844 Theresa Worrell,
Issue :
James, of Phila.,
Theresa Dolly, m. Apr. 9, 1867 Gen. Wm. T. Frohock, Issue (surname Frohock) : Theresa J., Thomas, m. June, 1875 Cora E. Hawkins, Issue : Theresa, Thomas, THOMAS, d. s. p. 1870,
JOHN LARGE, d. s. p. 1859,
MARY, d. s. p. 1873,
WILLIAM, of Phila., m. Ann P., dau. of James Large,
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Issue : James, m. Lily S. Wight of New York, MARTHA, d. unm. 1867,
PHŒBE MORRIS, d. unm. Apr., 1870.
ELIZABETH MIFFLIN, dau. of George and Martha Mifflin, p. 368, d. 1844, m. F. M. Nov. 28, 1798 Caspar Wistar, M. D., at that time perhaps the most celebrated physician of his generation in the Union. He was born Sep. 13, 1761, of Quaker parentage, son of Richard Wis- tar by his w. Sarah, dau. of Bartholomew Wyatt of Salem, N. J., and gr'dson of a Caspar Wistar who emigrated from the Palatinate. Dr. Wistar began his medical education under Dr. John Redman of Phila., with whom he remained three years, attending also the lectures of the medical school, and receiving from it in 1782 the degree of Bachelor in Arte Medica. In 1783, he went to Europe to complete his educa- tion, and, after remaining a year in London, removed to Edinburgh, where he made the acquaintance of the men most eminent in the science, and at that early age was honored by election and re-election as one of the Presidents of the Royal Medical Society of that City, and was also President of the Society for the Further Investigation of Natural History. He received the degree of M. D. form the Uni- versity of Edinburgh in 1786, his dissertation being "De Animo Demisso." He returned to Philadelphia in January, 1787, and began active practice. In the same year, he was appointed one of the attend- ing physicians of the Dispensary. In 1789, he was made Professor of Chemistry and Physiology in the College of Philadelphia, one of the two rival Faculties which divided and weakened the friends of medical edu- cation, but whose union was greatly desired by him. This indeed was achieved three years later, and in January, 1792, he was made adjunct Professor of Anatomy, Midwifery, and Surgery in the institution known as the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. Midwifery and Surgery were afterwards made separate chairs, Dr. Wistar and Dr. Shippen continuing to teach Anatomy. On the death of Dr. Shippen in 1808, Wistar became sole Professor of that branch. He did much for the school, besides shedding lustre on it by his repu- tation. He liberally provided himself with apparatus, drawings, &ct., and he carried to great success the method of lecturing from models. The models in wood, he had made by Rush the carver, of Philadel- phia. He imported from Italy the contents of his cabinet of dried preparations of the lymphatics. He was, thought Chief Justice Tilgh-
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