Funeral services at his late residence, No. 1033 Spruce street, this Thursday, at 9:10 A.M. Interment at Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore. Please do not send flowers."
"WELL KNOWN CITIZEN DECEASED.
Dr. Casper Morris died yesterday morning at his residence, No. 1033 Spruce street, aged seventy-nine years. Deceased was born in this city in 1805, his ancestors having resided here from the founding of the colony by Penn. In 1826, after pursuing the full course of study, Dr. Morris graduated from the University of Pennsylvania'a Medical Department, and was for a time thereafter the resident physician of the Pennsylvania Hospital. After a voyage to India, in which he acted as ship's surgeon, he returned to Philadelphia. He began practice here and remained engaged in it until 1871, when he retired. Dr. Morris at one time held the position of lecturer on diseases of children at Blockley, and also that of lecturer on the practice of medicine in the Philadelphia Medical Institute. Among his works was a very valuable publication on scarlet fever."
The Philadelphia Inquirer. 18 March 1884
Funeral services at his late residence, No. 1033 Spruce street, this Thursday, at 9:10 A.M. Interment at Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore. Please do not send flowers."
"WELL KNOWN CITIZEN DECEASED.
Dr. Casper Morris died yesterday morning at his residence, No. 1033 Spruce street, aged seventy-nine years. Deceased was born in this city in 1805, his ancestors having resided here from the founding of the colony by Penn. In 1826, after pursuing the full course of study, Dr. Morris graduated from the University of Pennsylvania'a Medical Department, and was for a time thereafter the resident physician of the Pennsylvania Hospital. After a voyage to India, in which he acted as ship's surgeon, he returned to Philadelphia. He began practice here and remained engaged in it until 1871, when he retired. Dr. Morris at one time held the position of lecturer on diseases of children at Blockley, and also that of lecturer on the practice of medicine in the Philadelphia Medical Institute. Among his works was a very valuable publication on scarlet fever."
The Philadelphia Inquirer. 18 March 1884
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