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The school was founded in 1856 with Henry C. Carey as president, and using many of the faculty of the defunct Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery, which had been founded about four years earlier but had recently closed. [1] [2] [3] Carey continued as president until his death in 1879. [4]
Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry was established in 1863 as Philadelphia Dental College and is the second-oldest continually functioning dental school in the country. [1] The school became part of Temple University in 1907. [2] [3] The Philadelphia Dental College changed its name to the Temple University School of Dentistry in 1913. [1]
John Massey Rhind, a Scottish-American sculptor, made the work of art for the City of Philadelphia Fairmount Park Commission that was installed in 1900. [7] Houston's Chestnut Hill mansion, Druim Moir (1886), still exists, having been converted to multiple residential units in 1980. [13] Springside School occupies part of the former estate's ...
Dental students observing in the Oral Surgery Clinic at the former Philadelphia General Hospital, 1910. Penn Dental Medicine's earliest instance was the Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery, which was founded in 1852. The school was renamed the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1878. That same year, Dr. Charles J. Essig founded the ...
Twenty-one states have the distinction of being the birthplace of a president. One president's birth state is in dispute; North and South Carolina (British colonies at the time) both lay claim to Andrew Jackson, who was born in 1767 in the Waxhaw region along their common border. Jackson himself considered South Carolina his birth state.
When the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 struck Philadelphia, President Washington remained in the city until September, before making his regular autumn trip home to Mount Vernon. He and a small group of slaves returned in early November, but Philadelphia was under quarantine and they were rerouted to Germantown, then ten miles (16 km) outside ...
The governor of Pennsylvania is the head of government of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, as well as commander-in-chief of the state's national guard. [2]The governor has a duty to enforce state laws and the power to approve or veto bills passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly, [3] as well as to convene the legislature. [4]
(Philadelphia) Federalist: Elected in 1810. Retired. 13th: March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815 Charles J. Ingersoll (Philadelphia) Democratic-Republican: Elected in 1812. Lost re-election. John Conard : Democratic-Republican: Elected in 1812. Retired. 14th: March 4, 1815 – May 16, 1815 William Milnor (Philadelphia) Federalist: Elected in 1814 ...