| | 1 | Name: | Isaac Bartram | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 11/17/1725 | | | Death Date: | 6/22/1801 | | | | | | |
Isaac Bartram (17 November 1725–c. 22 June 1801) was a chemist, apothecary, and naturalist and a member of the Young Junto, elected in 1759. Born outside Philadelphia on the farm of his father, APS founding member John Bartram, Isaac ran an apothecary shop with his half-brother and fellow Young Junto member Moses Bartram; the shop also employed renowned surgeon and APS member James Hutchinson as an apprentice. The Bartram brothers signed the 1765 Non-Importation Agreement and later parted company amicably to establish independent shops. At the meetings of the Young Junto, Isaac submitted queries concerning electricity and the creation of a more sustainable timber supply in the region. He also presented papers on botany and conducted experiments to distill liquor from persimmons as a substitute for Caribbean rum. He is credited with proposing the creation of a class of foreign elected members to increase the society’s prestige. He served on committees that oversaw the unification of the American Society and American Philosophical Society, produced the first volume of the APS Transactions, and sought to augment the Society’s collections. He was also an early manager of the Silk Society, a director of the Library Company, an elected member of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, and a contributor to the Philadelphia Dispensary and Pennsylvania Hospital. In addition to his father and his brother Moses, another half-brother, William Bartram, was a member of the American Society. (PI) | |
| 2 | Name: | Isaac Briggs | | | Year Elected: | 1796 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| 3 | Name: | Isaac Burk | | | Year Elected: | 1884 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1821 | | | Death Date: | 3/30/1893 | | | | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Isaac Cathrall | | | Year Elected: | 1796 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1763 | | | Death Date: | 2/22/1819 | | | | |
| 5 | Name: | Isaac Craig | | | Year Elected: | 1787 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| 6 | Name: | Isaac R. Davis | | | Year Elected: | 1851 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1809 | | | Death Date: | 2/4/1857 | | | | |
| 7 | Name: | Isaac Gray | | | Year Elected: | 1781 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| 8 | Name: | Isaac I. Hayes | | | Year Elected: | 1863 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1831 | | | Death Date: | 12/17/1881 | | | | |
| 9 | Name: | Isaac Hays | | | Year Elected: | 1830 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 04/12/1879 | | | | |
| 10 | Name: | Isaac Hazlehurst | | | Year Elected: | 1851 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 07/07/1891 | | | | |
| 11 | Name: | Dr. Benjamin H. Isaac | | | Institution: | Tel Aviv University | | | Year Elected: | 2003 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404a | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | | | | |
Benjamin Isaac received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in 1980. He remained at Tel Aviv and is currently the Fred and Helen Lessing Professor of Ancient History. His books and his more than 50 articles, book reviews, and contributions to the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, the Anchor Bible Dictionary, and the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World have established him as a leading authority on Roman imperialism, the Roman military establishment, relations with conquered peoples (especially Greeks and Jews), epichoric inscriptions in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, and the road system of the Near East, especially in Judaea. His current work on Greeks, Romans, and Others deals magisterially with the perceptions of aliens prevalent in the ancient world from Homer to the beginning of the Middle Ages. Numerous honors, participation in international conferences and lectures testify to his international renown. Dr. Isaac's books include (with R. van Royen) The Arrival of the Greeks: The Evidence from the Settlements (1979); (with I. Roll) Roman Roads in Judaea I: The Scythopolis-Legio Road (1982); The Greek Settlements in Thrace until the Macedonian Conquest (1986); The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East (1990, 1992); (with M. Fischer, I. Roll) Roman Roads in Judaea, II: The Jaffa-Jerusalem Roads (1996); The Near East Under Roman Rule: Selected Papers (1998); The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity (2004); and Empire and Ideology in the Graeco-Roman World: Selected Papers (2017). He received the Best Book Award from the American Military Institute in 1991. Dr. Isaac is a member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut and the Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2003. He received the Israel Prize in 2008. | |
| 12 | Name: | Isaac Jamineau | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1710 | | | Death Date: | 11/3/1789 | | | | | | |
Isaac Jamineau (1710–3 November 1789) was a diplomat and scientific observer, and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. Born in England, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and London’s Middle Temple. He began his career with a post office sinecure before taking the position of British Consul at Naples. His 1764 encounter with APS member Dr. John Morgan, then on a grand tour of Italy, initiated a lengthy correspondence. Three years later, Jamineau sent an account of the 1767 eruption of Mount Vesuvius to Morgan, who read it to the American Society the following year. Printed in the Pennsylvania Chronicle, APS member Lewis Nicola’s American Magazine, and the first volume of the APS Transactions, these observations led to Jamineau’s 1768 election to the Society. A decade earlier his account of the volcano’s 1754 eruption had been read to the Royal Society of London, but no evidence of his other scientific activities survives. He was, however, awarded a gold medal by the Society for Promoting Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in 1775. He resigned the consulship in 1779 and died in 1789. (PI) | |
| 13 | Name: | Isaac Jones | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 7/17/1716 | | | Death Date: | 10/18/1773 | | | | | | |
Isaac Jones (17 July 1716–18 October 1773) was a merchant and public officeholder, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born in Philadelphia, he successfully oversaw his family’s mercantile business until he retired in 1763. Jones otherwise directed his energies to public officeholding, beginning with his election to the Philadelphia Common Council in 1742. Eventually, he was elected city alderman in 1764 and mayor in 1767 and 1768. During this time he was also active in a number of Philadelphia institutions, serving as a manager for the Pennsylvania Hospital, a trustee and treasurer for the College of Philadelphia, and a treasurer and lay delegate for the Baptist Church of Philadelphia. Jones died after a lingering illness in 1773. His son, Robert Strettel Jones, was an APS member. (PI) | |
| 14 | Name: | Isaac Lea | | | Year Elected: | 1828 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 12/8/1886 | | | | |
| 15 | Name: | Isaac C. Martindale | | | Year Elected: | 1880 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1843 | | | Death Date: | 1/3/1893 | | | | |
| 16 | Name: | Isaac Norris | | | Year Elected: | 1872 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1834 | | | Death Date: | 10/22/1918 | | | | |
| 17 | Name: | Isaac Paschall | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 9/81728 | | | Death Date: | 11/27/1773 | | | | | | |
Isaac Paschall (8 September 1728–c. 27 November 1773) was a merchant and a member of the American Society (elected in 1766) via his membership in the Young Junto (elected c. 1758). Born in Philadelphia into a Quaker family, he was a regular attendee of the Young Junto’s meetings and proposed numerous queries for discussion, with topics ranging from the best form of government to the relationship between light and heat to the continued existence of the slave trade. As a member of the American Society, he served on committees tasked with preparing a history of the Society, creating a cabinet to display its collections, negotiating its unification with the American Philosophical Society, and creating a seal for the newly united APS. He owned a store with his brother and fellow Young Junto member Joseph Paschall and signed the Non-Importation Agreement of 1765. Paschall was also a contributor to the Friendly Association, Silk Society, College of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania Hospital. He was named director of the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1762, though poor health prevented him from serving in that role. His uncle John Reynell was a member of the revived APS. (PI) | |
| 18 | Name: | Dr. Isidor Isaac Rabi | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1941 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1898 | | | Death Date: | 1/11/88 | | | | |
| 19 | Name: | Isaac Sharpless | | | Year Elected: | 1884 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 1/16/20 | | | | |
| 20 | Name: | Isaac Smith | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1736 | | | Death Date: | 8/29/1807 | | | | | | |
Isaac Smith (1736–29 August 1807) was a physician, public officeholder, and judge, and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. Born in New Jersey, he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1755 as well as an honorary master’s degree in 1758, both from the College of New Jersey. Shortly thereafter, Smith relocated to Philadelphia to study medicine. There, he received another honorary master’s degree from the College of Philadelphia before opening a “Medicinal Store” with business partner Richard Harris in Philadelphia. By 1765 Smith had dissolved the business and moved to Trenton, New Jersey, where he continued practicing medicine. Though he lacked legal training, he was appointed a judge of the Hunterdon County Court of Common Pleas in 1768 and in 1777 became an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, holding that post for almost three decades. Also interested in politics, Smith supported American Independence. He was Hunterdon County’s elected representative to the state convention that selected the delegates to the First Continental Congress. He later served as a colonel in the county’s militia in 1775 and 1776. A dedicated Federalist, Smith was elected to the U.S. Congress for a single term in 1794, after which time he accepted George Washington’s appointment as U.S. Commissioner in treaty negotiations with the Mohawk Indian Nation. While never active at the APS, Smith devoted considerable energy to the New Jersey Medical Society and the Trenton Academy. Having outlived his wife and sons, he was buried next to his family in 1807. (PI) | |
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