Biographical memoir of Franklin Bache, M.D : prepared at the request of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia : read before the college, May 3d and June 7th, 1865 / by George B. Wood.

  • Wood, George B. (George Bacon), 1797-1879.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Biographical memoir of Franklin Bache, M.D : prepared at the request of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia : read before the college, May 3d and June 7th, 1865 / by George B. Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DR. FRANKLIN BACHE. 0 had been near Preston, in Lancashire, at no great dis- tance from Chester. I mention this incident as tending to show that his paternal ancestors ranked with the gentry of England. The oldest child of the marriage just referred to was Benjamin Franklin Bache, the father of the subject of this memoir, who was born in August, 1769, and mar- ried in November, 1791, in his twenty-third year, Mar- garet Hartman Markoe, descended through her father from Peter Markoe, and through her mother from Isaac Hartman, names distinguished in the social annals of our city. Benjamin Franklin Bache was educated under the eye of his grandfather, Dr. Franklin, while minister of the United States in France, who gave him the best opportunities Europe afforded, and caused him to be instructed, not only in the usual knowledge of the schools, but in all the accomplishments then considered as entering into the idea of a finished gentleman. On returning to America, he soon entered the political arena, established the Aurora Newspaper in the interest of the Democratic party, and, considering his own quali- fications, the prestige of his descent, and the success and long predominance of his party, would probably, had he lived, attained -a most distinguished position in the government of the country. But he was cut off at an early age, dying of the yellow fever in September, 1798, in his thirtieth year, and leaving a widow with four sons, the eldest of whom was the late Dr. Franklin Bache, and the youngest Hartman Bache, now Colonel