Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery

The Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery (sometimes referred to informally as the Pennsylvania Dental College) was founded in 1856 in Philadelphia and was the second oldest operating school of dentistry in the United States at the time of its founding. From its faculty came what are today the dental schools of Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania. The school was founded in 1856 with Henry C. Carey as president, and using many of the faculty of the defunct Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery which had been founded about four years earlier but had recently closed. Carey continued as president until his death in 1879. The school's first location was 528 Arch Street, where its predecessor institution had been located,...