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Whittier C. Atkinson founded Clement Atkinson Memorial Hospital here in 1936, offering quality health care to all despite inability to pay. He was the first African American president of the Chester County Medical Society and was named Pennsylvania Practitioner of the Year in 1960. A 1924 graduate of Howard University, he began his Coatesville practice in 1927.
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Coatesville, Pennsylvania · United States
