Benjamin Rush
24 Dec 1745 - 19 Apr 1813
Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) was born 4 Jan. 1746 in Byberry, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. He was the son of John Rush and Savanna Hall. He married Julia Stockton on 11 Jan. 1776. He died 19 Apr. 1813 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and one of the eminent men for whom Wilford Woodruff initiated proxy temple ordinance work in Aug. 1877.
Dr. Benjamin Rush (LVMM-S2V), “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 14 Sep. 2022). Benjamin Rush, Wilford Woodruff Papers (https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/subjects/benjamin-rush, accessed 14 Sep. 2022). American Philosophical Society, The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1948); digital images, Harvard Square Library (http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/The-Autobiography-of-Benjamin-Rush.pdf, accessed 14 Sep. 2022).
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