Whittier C. Atkinson

(1893 - 1991)

Founded Clement Atkinson Memorial Hospital here, 1936, offering quality health care to all despite inability to pay. First African American president of Chester County Medical Society; Pa. Practitioner of the year, 1960. A 1924 graduate of Howard University, he began his Coatesville practice in 1927.

Marker is on E. Chestnut Street near N. 8th Ave., on the right when traveling east.