Thomas Morgan Rotch (1849–1914) was the president of the

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for 1890–91 and America's first full professor of pediatrics. He was the great-grandson of Samuel Powel Griffitts.

Biography

Thomas Morgan Rotch was born in

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on December 9, 1849. He graduated from

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in 1870, and from

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in 1874. He died at his home in

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on March 9, 1914.

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