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Tag: Anaeze C. Offodile II

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital

    Anaeze C. Offodile IIJoel T. KatzBoston, Massachusetts, United States Before his death in 1877, Peter Bent Brigham, a prominent restaurateur, businessman and abolitionist in the Boston area, left a significant bequest for the creation of a hospital to provide care for the indigent and sick patients of Suffolk County.1 This would materialize several decades later…