Sarah Coates Wileman ~ Medical School Diploma

Translation of the Diploma

Andrew Curtain

Secretary of the State of Pennsylvania

Presiding

Penn Medical University

Philadelphia

Directors and Professors

Have received among the number of alumni of our alma mater

Esther Coates Wileman

Adorned with good character and having been made ripe and worthy by

Previously finishing her studies in the arts and human letters and

Have duly invested her with all privileges and benefits belonging to this medical university

Created by law of the State of Pennsylvania and endowed with the fullest authority in medical matters.

In testimony of which fact I have adorned this parchment with the legal seal 

Signed by Josephus Longshore, MD dean of this school established to teach women

Given in our hall in the first day of October, 1855


Translated by Professor Alfred Schlesinger of Oberlin College 3-28-1943