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Coxe, Alfred

 Person

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Coxe family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 443
Overview John Redman Coxe was born in 1773 in Trenton, N.J. and died in Philadelphia in 1864. He earned his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1794. Coxe held the positions of Professor of Chemistry (1809-1818) and Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy (1818-1835) at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a strong advocate of vaccination and one of the first to practice this new preventive method in Philadelphia.The Coxe family papers is a small collection dating from 1857 to...
Dates: 1857-1872