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H. Chester Parry lecture and matriculation tickets
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Henry Chester Parry was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, on 17 June 1839. He was a son of Edwin Owen Parry, a judge. Parry received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1861. He then was a Surgeon in the United States Army. Parry died on 7 November 1893 at Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania.
This small collection documents H. Chester Parry's medical education at the University of Pennsylvania, 1859-1861. The collection contains Parry's matriculation card, lecture and clinic admission cards, an examination schedule, and a letter certifying his passage of his examinations. Faculty members whose lectures Parry attended are: Joseph Carson, Hugh L. Hodge, Samuel Jackson, Joseph Leidy, R. E. Rogers, Henry H. Smith, and George B. Wood.
The H. Chester Parry Collection was donated to the Historical Collections of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Parry's grandson, Henry Frazer Parry, of Wyndmore, Pennsylvania, on 10 August 1987.
The collection was processed and catalogued in June 1990.
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