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American physician (1856–1946)

Nathan Francis Mossell (July 27, 1856 – October 27, 1946) was an American physician who was the first African-American graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1882.

He did post-graduate training at hospitals in Philadelphia and London.

Nathan Francis Mossell was a pioneer physician who established the first black private hospital in Philadelphia and founded the Philly chapter of the NAACP.

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Nathan Francis Mossell was an African American doctor who helped establish the first black hospital in Philadelphia.

Nathan Francis Mossell was the first African American to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in

Nathan Francis Mossell was an African American doctor who helped establish the first black hospital in Philadelphia, the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital.

In 1888, he was the first black physician elected as member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society in Pennsylvania. He was active in the NAACP and also helped found the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School in West Philadelphia in 1895, which he led as chief-of-staff and medical director until he retired in 1933.^[1][2]Gertrude Bustill Mossell was his wife.

Early life and education

Mossell was born in Hamilton, Canada, in 1856, the fourth of six children. Both his parents, Eliza Bowers (1824 – ?) and Aaron Albert Mossell I (1824 – ?), were descended from freed slaves.

According to Mossell's autobiography,