Benjamin Rush

(1746-1813)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 LBT ID: BeRush1813 VIAF ID: 84813377 LOC ID: n50000649	B/BAP: 1746-01-04 DIED: 1813-04-19
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American physician educated at the College of New Jersey; he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a friend of Jefferson and Adams.
REFERENCES TO Benjamin Rush: Benjamin Rush to William Roscoe, [1802] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Found 1: ¶ 1 [Thomas Love Peacock], “Moore’s Letters and Journals of Byron” in Westminster Review 12 (January 1825) 269-304 Found 1: ¶ 108 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter VII. 1799-1805 Found 2: ¶ 20 ¶ n1