Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-09-04 | Page 4 | A Long-Lost Document

A LOST LONG DOCUMENT A historic petition which had been lost for half halt a dozen generations has been jeen recently discovered among a lo loof lot lotof lotof of pre material in an anold anold anold old chest back of the library vaults of Columbia university It is the petition signed by five physicians of old New York asking for the establishment of ot a medical school in connection connection con con- with the college which was then known as Kings King's college The petition is dated 1767 and it was this that really led to the establishment o othe of the medical school It was known that such a paper was among the records of th the tho institution more than years ago and search for it had been made on a number of occasions