AND The University of Pennsylvania i8i 



Lambert Cadwalader, of the class of 1760, and Tench 

 Tilghman of the class of 1761, military secretary and 

 aide to General Washington, who bore dispatches to 

 Congress announcing the surrender of Cornwallis. The 

 most conspicuous physicians in the camps and hospital 

 service of the Continental army were John Morgan, 

 Director General and Physician-in-Chief, who held the 

 first medical professorship in this country, William 

 Shippen, Chief Surgeon and a founder of the medical 

 department, Benjamin Rush the first professor of chem- 

 istry, and Adam Kuhn the first professor of materia 

 medica. The first Speaker of the Congress of the United 

 States was Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, a trustee. 

 Of Attorneys General of the United States, there have 

 been Caeser A. Rodney of the class of 1789, Henry D. 

 Gilpin of the class of 1819, and Benjamin Harris Brew- 

 ster of the class of 1834. Of Secretaries of the Treasury, 

 Robert J. Walker of the class of 1819, and William M. 

 Meredith, a trustee. Of reporters to the Supreme Court 

 of the United States, there were John William Wallace, 

 and William T. Otto, both of the class of 1832. All of 

 the Governors of the State have been ex-officio presidents 

 of the Board of Trustees, and seven of them were grad- 

 uates. Of Chief Justices of the State, we name William 

 Tilghman, John M. Read, George Sharswood and James 

 T. Mitchell, graduates, all of them, the latter of the 

 Law Department. In legal authorship we point to 



