Shippen family papers, 1671-1936

Biographical Notes

Date	Event
1736, Oct. 21	Born, Philadelphia, Pa.
1750	Entered the College of New Jersey, Princeton, N.J. (later reorganized as the Princeton University)
1754	Graduated, College of New Jersey
1758	Traveled to Europe to study medicine
1760	Married Alice Lee (died 1801)
1761	M.D., University of Edinburgh, Scotland
1762	Returned to Philadelphia, entered medical practice there with his father, and began teaching anatomy and midwifery
1765	Began teaching surgery and anatomy at the newly organized medical school of the College of Philadelphia (later reorganized as the University of Pennsylvania).
1777	Appointed director of Continental Army hospitals during the Revolutionary War
1780	Court-martialed for speculating in hospital supplies, acquitted
1781	Resigned from his directorship of the Continental Army hospitals
1791	Joined the staff of the Pennsylvania Hospital; remained until 1802
1805	Became president, College of Physicians of Philadelphia
1808, July 11	Died, Philadelphia, Pa.

Date	Event
1763, Feb. 24	Born, Shippensburg, Pa.
1781	Engaged to Louis-Guillaume Otto of the French delegation in Philadelphia. Married, and separated from, Henry Beekman Livingston Birth of daughter Margaret ("Peggy") Beekman Livingston
1783	Shared custody of Peggy Livingston with Livingston family after Peggy went to live with her Livingston grandmother in New York
1841, Aug. 25	Died, Philadelphia, Pa.

Date	Event
1765	Born, Philadelphia, Pa.
1784	Returned to Philadelphia after studying law in Williamsburg, Va.
1785-1789	Traveled in Europe; met Thomas Jefferson in Paris and received advice from him about travel; studied law at the Middle Temple, London
1789	Returned to Philadelphia
1791	Married Elizabeth Carter Farley Bannister
1798, Feb. 4	Died, Charleston, S.C.