Representing Pennsylvania at the Continental Congress
|Born:||December 24, 1745| |Education:||B.A. at the College of
New Jersey (now Princeton), M.D. at the University of Edinburgh
(Physician)| |Work:||Physician, Professor of Chemistry at the
College of Philadelphia, 1769; Writer, Member of the Sons of
Liberty in Philadelphia, 1773...; Elected to Pennsylvania
provincial conference, Elected to Continental Congress, 1776;
Appointed Surgeon-general to the armies of the middle department
(of the Continental Army), 1777; Instructor, Physician,
University of the State of Pennsylvania, 1778...; Treasurer of
the U.S. Mint, 1779-1813; Professor of medical theory and
clinical practice, University of Pennsylvania, 1791-1813|
|Died:||April 19, 1813| Benjamin Rush, eminent Physician,
writer, educator, humanitarian, is as interesting a figure as
one could find in the formation of the United States. A wildly
popular and much loved man, he was nonetheless a fallible
character. He was born in December of 1745 in Byberry, Penn