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Thomas Cadwalader was born in 1078 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; the son of John Cadwalader and his wife Martha Jones, daughter of Edward Jones and Mary Wynne.
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Thomas Cadwalader was born in 1078 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; the son of John Cadwalader and his wife Martha Jones, daughter of Edward Jones and Mary Wynne.
Cadwalader was educated at the Friends' Public School, now known as the Penn Charter School. He was then apprenticed to his uncle Dr. Evan Jones. When he was nineteen or twenty, his father sent him abroad to complete his medical education. He is said to have spent a year studying under Cheselden and to have attended courses at the University of Rheims. Returning to Philadelphia, he soon acquired a large practise and distinguished himself by his activity in public affairs.
Cadwalader was associated with Benjamin Franklin in founding the Philadelphia Library in 1731. In 1730 or 1731, according to Dr. Caspar Wistar, he made dissections and demonstrations for the instruction of the elder Dr. Shippen and some others who had not been abroad. At about the same time he is noted as employing inoculation against smallpox.
Cadwalader then left Philadelphia to live on his father-in-law's estate, but although he was elected to several minor political offices in New Jersey, he maintained a residence in Passyunk Township in Philadelphia, in which he passed part of each year. He undoubtedly also practised his profession in New Jersey as he was physician to Gov. Belcher, and had at least one pupil. In 1750 he resigned his office of burgess in Trenton, presenting to the town $500 to found a public library, and again took up his permanent residence in Philadelphia. In 1751 he subscribed toward the founding of the Pennsylvania Hospital and was asked by the board of managers, along with Drs. Graeme, Moore, and Redman, "to assist in consultations on extraordinary cases, " in which capacity he continued to give his services until 1779, when he resigned.
In 1751 he was elected a trustee of the Academy of Philadelphia (later the College of Philadelphia, and now the University of Pennsylvania). He was very active in the affairs of the American Philosophical Society, being at one time vice-president. He was also prominent in civic and colonial affairs. He was a member of the Common Council of Philadelphia from 1751 to 1774, and of the Provincial Council from 1755 until that body was dissolved at the outbreak of the Revolution. From an early date he rendered himself obnoxious to the Government by the patriotic zeal which he manifested in colonial matters. After Braddock's defeat he was one of twenty citizens who offered to pay $500 each for purposes of defense against the French and Indians, the Governor having refused to allow the Assembly the right to impose a tax for this purpose. In 1765 he affixed his signature to the "Non-Importation Articles" and that year was a prominent participant in a great meeting in the State House yard to protest against the Stamp Act. Although there is no record of his having held any military position during the Revolution there is evidence that he from time to time performed certain duties requested of him by the American authorities. Thus in 1776 he was asked to examine into the health of Gen. Prescott of the British army, then a prisoner of war in Philadelphia, and to report on the sanitary conditions of the jail. Prescott seems to have appreciated his services on this occasion, for, some time later, after his own release, he secured the release of Cadwalader's son Lambert, who had been taken prisoner by the British. He is also said to have helped Dr. John Morgan in his work as director-general of the American military hospitals.
He died while visiting his son Lambert, in Trenton, and was buried in that city.
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He was a member of the Common Council of Philadelphia and a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Courteous and kind, he enjoyed the esteem and affection of his fellow-townsmen. Of him it might be said, as Dr. Johnson wrote of the great physician Richard Mead, "No man lived more in the broad sunshine of life. "
In 1738 he married Hannah, daughter of Thomas Lambert, Jr. , a wealthy man who owned a great tract of land on and near where the city of Trenton, New Jersey, now flourishes.