Thomas Chalkley James (1766–1835)
James and Bushrod Washington were fellow members of the American Philosophical Society.
Thomas Chalkley James, son of a Quaker merchant, was born on 31 August 1766 in Philadelphia. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (1787), he worked as a surgeon on a merchant ship before studying medicine in London and at the University of Edinburgh. He returned to Philadelphia in 1793, helped fight the yellow fever epidemic then ravaging that city, and established a practice in obstetrics. James was a physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, professor of midwifery at the University of Pennsylvania, and secretary of the American Philosophical Society.
Hugh L. Hodge, A Memoir of Thomas C. James, M.D., Read Before the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: T.K. and P.G. Collins, Printers, 1843).
"From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas C. James, 21 January 1803," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-39-02-0320. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 39, 13 November 1802–3 March 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 373–374.]
"Thomas Chalkley James 1766–1835," University Archives & Records Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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