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Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851

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Personal name headingMorton, Samuel George, 1799-1851
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Variant(s)Morton, S. Georgius (Samuel Georgius), 1799-1851
Birth date1799
Death date1851
Found inLCCN 5-22470: Meigs, C.D. A memoir of Samuel George Morton, 1851 (hdg.: Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851)
LC data base, 11-26-84 (hdg.: Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851; usage: Samuel George Morton)
LCCN 39-10146: His Tentamen inaugurale de corporis dolore, 1823 (hdg.: Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851; usage: S. Georgius Morton, M.D.)
Wikipedia, June 14, 2010 (Samuel George Morton (1799-1851) was an American physician and natural scientist; reared a Quaker but became Episcopalian in midlife; b. in Philadelphia, Pa.; graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1820; after earning an advanced degree from Edinburgh University in Scotland, he began practice at Philadelphia in 1824; from 1839 to 1843, he was the professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania; his scholarship would sire the scientific racism that fed the defense of slavery in the US)