Philadelphia physician and father-in-law of Nelly Custis Lewis’s son Lorenzo Lewis

Dr. Coxe studied medicine in London and Edinburgh, as well as with Dr. Benjamin Rush at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his degree in 1794. After further study abroad, Coxe began to practice medicine in Philadelphia in 1796. He was a professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania from 1809 to 1819, then becoming chair of the materia medica and pharmacy in the medical department of the University. Coxe was an early proponent of vaccination who injected himself and his son in 1801,