1794-1867 , editor and Sunday school advocate

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An inquiry into the alleged tendency of the separation of convicts, one from the other, to produce disease and derangement / by a citizen of Pennsylvania.

Memorandum of a late visit to some of the principal hospitals, prisons, etc., in France, Scotland, and England. Embraced in a letter to the acting committee of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.

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Frederick Adolphus Packard

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An inquiry into the alleged tendency of the separation of convicts, one from the other, to produce disease and derangement / by a citizen of Pennsylvania.

Memorandum of a late visit to some of the principal hospitals, prisons, etc., in France, Scotland, and England. Embraced in a letter to the acting committee of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.