Bartlett, Josiah (1729–1795), physician and revolutionary politician in America, was born on 21 November 1729 in Amesbury, Massachusetts, the seventh and youngest child of Stephen Bartlett, a shoemaker, and his wife, Hannah Webster. Josiah had little schooling before being apprenticed to a relative, ...
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Bartlett, Josiah (1729–1795), physician and revolutionary politician in America
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Cogan, Thomas (1736–1818), physician
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Cogan, Thomas (1736–1818), physician, was born on 8 February 1736 at Rowell (Rothwell), Northamptonshire, the second of the four children of John Cogan, surgeon and apothecary (1698–1784), who came from a Somerset family, and his first wife, Martha Morrice, of Lukenham, Leicestershire. Thomas's...
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Comfort, Alexander [Alex] (1920–2000), physician and writer
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Comfort, Alexander [Alex] (1920–2000), physician and writer, was born on 10 February 1920 at 21 Palmerston Crescent, Edmonton, Middlesex, the only son of Alexander Charles Comfort (1882/3–1975), an education officer for the London county council, and his wife, Daisy Elizabeth, née Fenner (...
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Cooke, Elisha (1678–1737), politician and physician in America
William Pencak
Cooke, Elisha (1678–1737), politician and physician in America, was born on 20 December 1678 in Boston, Massachusetts, the only son of Elisha Cooke (1637–1715), also a physician and a long-time leader of the puritan or anti-prerogative faction in Massachusetts, and Elizabeth (1651–1715), daughter of ...
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Moody, Harold Arundel (1882–1947), physician and founder of the League of Coloured Peoples
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Moody, Harold Arundel (1882–1947), physician and founder of the League of Coloured Peoples, was born on 8 October 1882 at 8 Rum Lane, in Kingston, Jamaica, the eldest of six children of Charles Ernest Moody (1861–1920) and his wife, née Christina Emmeline Ellis (...
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Warren, Joseph (1741–1775), physician and revolutionary politician in America
Paul David Nelson
Warren, Joseph (1741–1775), physician and revolutionary politician in America, was born on 30 May 1741 at Roxbury, Massachusetts, the eldest of four children of Joseph Warren (1695–1755), farmer, and his wife, Mary Stevens (b. 1712), daughter of Samuel Stevens of Roxbury and his wife, ...
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Winthrop, John (1606–1676), colonial governor and physician
Walter W. Woodward
Winthrop, John (1606–1676), colonial governor and physician, was born on 12 February 1606 at Groton Manor, Suffolk, the eldest son of John Winthrop (1588–1649), governor of Massachusetts, and his first wife, Mary (1584–1615), daughter of John Forth of Great Stambridge, Essex, and his wife, ...
