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OBITUARY. 

 ALBERT NIEDERER. 



Albert Niederer died at his home in Carlstadt New Jersey on September 25th. 



Mr. Niederer was born in Carlstadt. He learned the drug business under 

 Mr. Frunk, an old German Apotheker in Carlstadt. He entered in the New York 

 College of Pharmacy in 1886, at that time situated in the old building in East 23d 

 Street. He was an excellent student; winning the Bronze Medal in the Gradua- 

 ting Class of 1888, the celebrated "Blizzard Class." The subject of his thesis 

 was: "Emigration of Plants in New Jersey." He passed his senior examination 

 with 94.63 per cent., receiving out of a possible 485 marks 459. The members of 

 the "Blizzard Class" will undoubtedly remember that on the examination day, 

 March 12th, 1908, the "Blizzard Tuesday," when no railroads and no trolley or 

 rather horsecars were running, Albert Niederer walked through three feet of snow 

 from his home in Carstadt to Jersey City, a distance of over 10 miles, in order to 

 present himself for examination in the afternoon at College of Pharmacy. 



He established himself in rerail drug business in Carlstadt in Z l^ and was very 

 successful. He was present at the reunion of the "Blizzard Class of 1888" at 

 the Twentieth Anniversary Dinner at Reisenweber's, March 12th, 1908, where 

 he exchanged reminescences with his fellow-graduates. 



He was a member of the New Jersey State Pharmaceutical Association and 

 attended its meeting at Lake Hopatcong last June. 



He was in the best of health. He joined the American Pharmaceutical Asso- 

 ciation in July this year. 



Requiescat in pace. 



ALBERT E. MARSLAND. 



Albert Edward Marsland, 1889, died on Saturday, September 25th at his res- 

 idence, 319 Adelphi Street, Brooklyn, after a long illness. His death was due a 

 cancer of the stomach. A month ago he was operated in the Jewish Hospital, 

 but it is said the operation had nothing to do with his death. Mr. Marsland's 

 store for the past ten years was at Greene Avenue and Cumberland Street, and 

 he also had stores at Long Beach, L. I., and Twilight Park, in the Adirondack 

 Mountains. He start in the drug business as a boy with Thomas McEIhenie and 

 rose to be a partner in the business. Mr. McEIhenie sent him to college and 

 made him a druggist. He was born forty-five years age, and was the son of 

 Joseph and Maria Marsland. His father was a woolen merchant of Brooklyn, 

 and one of the first in that business. He graduated from the New York College 

 of Pharmacy in 1889. He was a teacher for some time in the Brooklyn College 

 of Pharmacy, and was a prominent member of the Kings County Pharmaceutical 

 Society. Some years ago. he ran against Dr. William Muir for the Presidency ol 

 the society. 



