Roberts Vaux

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Other Names: Roberts Vaux

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1786

Birth Place: Philadelphia

Death Date: 1836

Death Place: Philadelphia

Affiliations: Society of Friends

Notes: American lawyer, jurist, abolitionist, and philanthropist. Helped found the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, the School for the Blind, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Frankford Asylum for the Insane. Served as Secretary and Commissioner of the Philadelphia Prison Society, was one of the commissioners to adapt Pennsylvania law and also to build Eastern State Penitentiary. Corresponded with Wm. Roscoe regarding prison discipline, corresponded with David Hosack in 1833 regarding Thomas Eddy.

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