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Wells, William Charles, 1757-1817

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Personal name headingWells, William Charles, 1757-1817
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Found inHis An essay on dew and several appearances connected with it, 1866: t.p. (William Charles Wells)
LC data base, 11-6-86 (hdg.: Wells, William Charles, 1757-1817)
DAB (Wells, William Charles; physician and physicist; b. Charleston, S.C., son of Robert Wells, a prominent printer and bookseller; educated at Edinburgh Univ., M.D. 1780; returned to Charleston in 1781 to manage his father's printing business; claimed to have founded first weekly newspaper in Florida, at St. Augustine, 1783; returned to London in 1784 where he settled as a physician; b. 5/24/1757; d. 9/18/1817)