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AS PHILADELPHIA’S POPULATION CONTINUED TO GROW, two separate classes were beginning to form: the elite class and the artisan class. A rhyme was even devised to help people remember all the members of the elite class: “Morris, Norris, Rush and Chew / Drinker, Dallas, Coxe and Pugh / Wharton, Pepper, Pennypacker / Willing, Shippen and Markoe.” By 1730, the population of Penn’s city was around 11,500. Out of that artisan class came Benjamin Franklin, a humble printer who moved to Philadelphia from Boston and would ultimately become better known than Penn and become involved in nearly every facet of colonial society. Arguably, without Ben Franklin and his ability to make friends and influence people, Philadelphia would be without numerous firsts, including a number of health Initiatives that would shape the culture of medicine and health care in early America and for generations to come.