Thomas Cadwalader
(d. 1779)
BIRTH
c. 1707
PLACE
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Great Britain
DEATH
November 14, 1779
PLACE
Trenton, New Jersey, United States
FAMILY
SISTER
Maria Cadwalader Ringgold
(1776-1811)
SISTER
Elizabeth McCall
(1829-1905)
WIFE
Hannah Lambert Cadwalader
(1715-1788)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
QUAKER
MEMBERSHIPS
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY MEMBER, LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA DIRECTOR, LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDER, SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE MEMBER, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA TRUSTEE
AWARDS
Thomas Cadwalader was a Philadelphia physician born about 1707. After studying medicine locally and in London, he returned to Pennsylvania and practiced smallpox inoculation. His 1745 medical tract described lead poisoning and linked cases to rum distilled through lead pipes. He was an early physician at Pennsylvania Hospital, a trustee of the institution that became Penn and chief burgess of Trenton. He died in 1779. Accounts differ over his birth year.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Thomas Cadwalader’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Thomas Cadwalader with work or public activity as a doctor. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Thomas Cadwalader died on Nov 14, 1779 in Trenton, New Jersey, United States. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
After studying medicine locally and in London, he returned to Pennsylvania and practiced smallpox inoculation. He was an early physician at Pennsylvania Hospital, a trustee of the institution that became Penn and chief burgess of Trenton. He was a founder and director of the Library Company of Philadelphia, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, where he served as vice president from 1769 to 1770. Thomas Cadwalader was an early physician at Pennsylvania Hospital, a trustee of the institution that became Penn and chief burgess of Trenton. Thomas Cadwalader died on Nov 14, 1779 in Trenton, New Jersey, United States. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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