Joseph Parrish

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Other Names: Joseph Parrish

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1779

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: 1840

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Society of Friends

Notes: Phila. Quaker physician. Son of Isaac Parish (c.1734-1826) and Sarah Mitchell Parish; m. (1808) Susannah Cox, daughter of John Cox (1754-1847) and Ann Dillwyn Cox. Apprenticeship with his father; studied medicine with Caspar Wistar (1802); medical degree, Univ. of Pa. (1805); several important medical posts in Phila. President, Pa. Abolition Soc.; opposed capital punishment.

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