The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Captain Saunders' Father, Rev. Ephraim Dod Saunders

From Find-A-Grave.

BORN:  30 September 1808    Morris County, New Jersey

DIED:  13 September 1872 (aged 62)

BURIED:  Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Graduated from Yale College in 1831 with a Doctorate in Theology.

At the death of his son, Courtland Saunders, he donated all his land and gave a $400,000 endowment  to start Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia.

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It still exists and is now called Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

--Old Secesh


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