THE ALUMNI JOURNAL 45 



Ewen Mclntyre, venerable and beloved member of the Alumni 

 Association and of the College, of which for a nmnber of years he 

 had been the oldest living graduate, died at his residence in this city on 

 fanuary 8th, from heart failure following an attack of pneumonia. 



Mr. Mclntyre, third of ihe six sons of James and Ann Campbell 

 Mclntyre, was born January i8, 1825, on a farm owned by his parents 

 near Johnstown, Fulton County, New York, 



He received his early education at the district school and later 

 attended the Johnstown Academy which entailed on the young student 

 a walk of three miles night and morning. 



At the age of 17, being influenced perhaps by the fact that his 

 paternal grandfather had been a practicing physician first in Scotland 

 and in later life at Sunbury, Pa., he selected the drug business as a Hfe 

 vocation and coming to New York City in 1842 was apprenticed to 

 George D. Coggeshall, a graduate of the Philadelphia College of 

 Pharmacy, who was conducting a drug store at the corner of Pearl 

 and Rose Street, where what is known as the Scott and Bowne building 

 now stands; the term of Ewen Mclntyre's apprenticeship was four 

 years, and he received as compensation board and lodging, two courses 

 of lectures at the New York College of Pharmacy, and at the end of 

 the four years $150 in cash. 



While pursuing his studies at the College, he discovered that a 

 large percentage of the chemicals and pharmaceuticals then imported 

 and for which the trade relied almost exclusively upon European 

 manufacturers, was grossly adulterated and this discovery re- 

 sulted, first, in the passage by Congress in 1846 of a law 

 which required all imported drugs and chemicals to conform 

 to certain general standards of purity, and, second, in the found- 

 ing of the American Pharmaceutical Association, among the aims 

 of which as stated in its constitution being: "To unite the educated 

 and reputable pharmacists and druggists of America in securing the 

 improvement and regulation of the drug market, by preventing the 

 importation of inferior adulterated drugs, etc.," so that although at 

 that time a student less than 21 years of age, to Ewen Mclntyre be- 

 longs the honor of starting the movement that led to the passage of 

 the first "pure drug law," and to the formation of the American Phar- 

 maceutical Association that great organization which has accomplished 

 more for pharmacy than it is possible for any. one of us even now to 

 realize. 



