75y 11m
Physician
119 S. 20th Street, 8th Ward
1882-02-21; Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer
"ROBERT BRIDGES, M. D.
Dr. Robert Bridges, emeritus professor of chemistry in the Pennsylvania College of Pharmacy, died at his residence, No. 110 South Twentieth street yesterday morning, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. Dr. Bridges was a native of this city, and a constant resident during all those years of his active and useful life. He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, both in the department of arts and in that of medicine; the latter in 1828, six years after the establishment of the College of Pharmacy, an institution to which he was afterward to render services so valuable, faithful and so long continued.
A few years after his graduation, Professor Bache was still a member of the faculty of the College of Pharmacy, and Robert Bridges first became connected with that institution in 1834, in the capacity of his assistant in the chair of chemistry. To the same chair he himself succeeded when Dr. Bache resigned to take a professorship in the Jefferson Medical College, and from that time till within a period not exceeding three years, he continued actively to fulfill the duties of that position. His services were held in such high esteem by all associated with the College of Pharmacy that when increasing years and infirmities warned him to tender his resignation he was at once elected emeritus professor of chemistry, and so continued during the remainder of his life.
Dr. Bridges being a physician as well as a chemist, was a fellow of the Philadelphia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and for many years, in addition to the duties of his professorship, discharged those of librarian to the last named institution.He was a man of active mental constitution, a patient and systematic thinker, and a polished and lucid writer, and the scientific journals of the country were enriched by many contributions from his pen. He was also the American editor of 'Fowne's Chemistry,' which by its extensive circulation made his reputation national.
For the past two years Dr. Bridges has been a sufferer from a complication of diseases, which, as became plainly evident some weeks since, could have no other than a fatal termination. In private life Dr. Bridges was a gentleman of high intelligence and kindly manners, proceeding from genuine goodness of heart and innate benevolence. To his immediate relatives he was tenderly attached and his house was as a home to those near and dear to him; but singularly capable as he was of appreciating household happiness, he never married."
Physician
119 S. 20th Street, 8th Ward
1882-02-21; Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer
"ROBERT BRIDGES, M. D.
Dr. Robert Bridges, emeritus professor of chemistry in the Pennsylvania College of Pharmacy, died at his residence, No. 110 South Twentieth street yesterday morning, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. Dr. Bridges was a native of this city, and a constant resident during all those years of his active and useful life. He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, both in the department of arts and in that of medicine; the latter in 1828, six years after the establishment of the College of Pharmacy, an institution to which he was afterward to render services so valuable, faithful and so long continued.
A few years after his graduation, Professor Bache was still a member of the faculty of the College of Pharmacy, and Robert Bridges first became connected with that institution in 1834, in the capacity of his assistant in the chair of chemistry. To the same chair he himself succeeded when Dr. Bache resigned to take a professorship in the Jefferson Medical College, and from that time till within a period not exceeding three years, he continued actively to fulfill the duties of that position. His services were held in such high esteem by all associated with the College of Pharmacy that when increasing years and infirmities warned him to tender his resignation he was at once elected emeritus professor of chemistry, and so continued during the remainder of his life.
Dr. Bridges being a physician as well as a chemist, was a fellow of the Philadelphia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and for many years, in addition to the duties of his professorship, discharged those of librarian to the last named institution.He was a man of active mental constitution, a patient and systematic thinker, and a polished and lucid writer, and the scientific journals of the country were enriched by many contributions from his pen. He was also the American editor of 'Fowne's Chemistry,' which by its extensive circulation made his reputation national.
For the past two years Dr. Bridges has been a sufferer from a complication of diseases, which, as became plainly evident some weeks since, could have no other than a fatal termination. In private life Dr. Bridges was a gentleman of high intelligence and kindly manners, proceeding from genuine goodness of heart and innate benevolence. To his immediate relatives he was tenderly attached and his house was as a home to those near and dear to him; but singularly capable as he was of appreciating household happiness, he never married."
75y 11m
Physician
119 S. 20th Street, 8th Ward
1882-02-21; Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer
"ROBERT BRIDGES, M. D.
Dr. Robert Bridges, emeritus professor of chemistry in the Pennsylvania College of Pharmacy, died at his residence, No. 110 South Twentieth street yesterday morning, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. Dr. Bridges was a native of this city, and a constant resident during all those years of his active and useful life. He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, both in the department of arts and in that of medicine; the latter in 1828, six years after the establishment of the College of Pharmacy, an institution to which he was afterward to render services so valuable, faithful and so long continued.
A few years after his graduation, Professor Bache was still a member of the faculty of the College of Pharmacy, and Robert Bridges first became connected with that institution in 1834, in the capacity of his assistant in the chair of chemistry. To the same chair he himself succeeded when Dr. Bache resigned to take a professorship in the Jefferson Medical College, and from that time till within a period not exceeding three years, he continued actively to fulfill the duties of that position. His services were held in such high esteem by all associated with the College of Pharmacy that when increasing years and infirmities warned him to tender his resignation he was at once elected emeritus professor of chemistry, and so continued during the remainder of his life.
Dr. Bridges being a physician as well as a chemist, was a fellow of the Philadelphia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and for many years, in addition to the duties of his professorship, discharged those of librarian to the last named institution.He was a man of active mental constitution, a patient and systematic thinker, and a polished and lucid writer, and the scientific journals of the country were enriched by many contributions from his pen. He was also the American editor of 'Fowne's Chemistry,' which by its extensive circulation made his reputation national.
For the past two years Dr. Bridges has been a sufferer from a complication of diseases, which, as became plainly evident some weeks since, could have no other than a fatal termination. In private life Dr. Bridges was a gentleman of high intelligence and kindly manners, proceeding from genuine goodness of heart and innate benevolence. To his immediate relatives he was tenderly attached and his house was as a home to those near and dear to him; but singularly capable as he was of appreciating household happiness, he never married."
Physician
119 S. 20th Street, 8th Ward
1882-02-21; Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer
"ROBERT BRIDGES, M. D.
Dr. Robert Bridges, emeritus professor of chemistry in the Pennsylvania College of Pharmacy, died at his residence, No. 110 South Twentieth street yesterday morning, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. Dr. Bridges was a native of this city, and a constant resident during all those years of his active and useful life. He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, both in the department of arts and in that of medicine; the latter in 1828, six years after the establishment of the College of Pharmacy, an institution to which he was afterward to render services so valuable, faithful and so long continued.
A few years after his graduation, Professor Bache was still a member of the faculty of the College of Pharmacy, and Robert Bridges first became connected with that institution in 1834, in the capacity of his assistant in the chair of chemistry. To the same chair he himself succeeded when Dr. Bache resigned to take a professorship in the Jefferson Medical College, and from that time till within a period not exceeding three years, he continued actively to fulfill the duties of that position. His services were held in such high esteem by all associated with the College of Pharmacy that when increasing years and infirmities warned him to tender his resignation he was at once elected emeritus professor of chemistry, and so continued during the remainder of his life.
Dr. Bridges being a physician as well as a chemist, was a fellow of the Philadelphia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and for many years, in addition to the duties of his professorship, discharged those of librarian to the last named institution.He was a man of active mental constitution, a patient and systematic thinker, and a polished and lucid writer, and the scientific journals of the country were enriched by many contributions from his pen. He was also the American editor of 'Fowne's Chemistry,' which by its extensive circulation made his reputation national.
For the past two years Dr. Bridges has been a sufferer from a complication of diseases, which, as became plainly evident some weeks since, could have no other than a fatal termination. In private life Dr. Bridges was a gentleman of high intelligence and kindly manners, proceeding from genuine goodness of heart and innate benevolence. To his immediate relatives he was tenderly attached and his house was as a home to those near and dear to him; but singularly capable as he was of appreciating household happiness, he never married."
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