THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF PHARMACY 



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IN MEMORIAM. 



Timothy Lester Woodruff * 



Born in New Haven, Conn.. 

 Av.g;. 4, 1858. 



Died in New York City, 

 Oct. 12, 1913, 



was the son of John and Harriet Jane 

 Lester Woodruff. His father served as 

 member of Congress during the civil 

 war and was a personal friend of 

 President Lincoln. 



His early education was acquired at 

 the Riverview Military Academy, Pough- 

 keepsie, Russells Military Institute at 

 New Haven and the Betts School at 

 Stamford. He was prepared for college 

 at Phillips Exeter Academy and grad- 

 uated from Yale in the class o£ 1879. 



After a course in the Eastman busi- 

 ness college at Poughkeepsie, he entererl 

 the employ of Nash and Whiton, whole- 

 sale salt and fish merchants on Warren 

 St., New York City, a considerable part 

 of whose business consisted in selling 

 round lots of goods for delivery from 

 warehouse and young Woodruff de- 

 veloped this end of the business to such 

 an extent and made himself so indispen- 

 sable that in a little more than a year 

 he was admitted to the firm which was 

 then named Nash, Whiton & Company. 

 As the business of the company grew, 

 Mr. Woodruff developed a warehouse 

 department of the firm which became 

 proprietors of the Franklin stores, the 

 Commercial stores, the Waverly stores, 

 the Nye stores and two grain elevators 

 on the Atlantic dock. Later Mr. Wood- 

 ruff' was one of the founders of the 

 Empire Warehouse Co., which consoli- 



iRead by Mr. Thos. F. Main, at the Col- 

 \(.'<ic Meeting-, Jan. 2nt]i, 1914. 



dated under one management the piers 

 and warehouses on some nine miles of 

 Brooklyn water front and was a director 

 and member of the Executive Committee 

 of this corporation and also of the 

 Brooklyn Grain Warehouse Co. 



Meanwhile Nash. Whiton & Company 

 had been succeeded by the Worcester 

 Salt Co. in which Mr. Woodruff was 

 treasurer and a director. This company 

 became the largest individual manufac- 

 turers of salt in the Ignited States and 

 was the first to market a fine table salt 

 under a trade marked name, the idea of 

 doing so being Mr. Woodruff's. 



Mr. Woodruff's connection with the 

 drug trade came in 1888 when he pur- 

 chased the Maltine Manufacturing Co. 

 which was then in a bad way owing to 

 faulty methods of manufacture and bad 

 financeering. Mr. Woodruff attacked 

 these problems with his customary 

 energy^ and when he had satisfactorily 

 solved the manufacturing problem he 

 exchanged stocks of the old article wher- 

 ever it was found throughout the United 

 States, for his improved and stable 

 product, and then so presented the merits 

 of his article to the medical profession 

 that the business was established on the 

 sound financial basis in which he left it 

 at his decease. 



Mr. Woodruff's great business ability 

 was by this time generally recognized in 

 the mercantile community and he was 

 constantly solicited to connect himself 

 with other business enterprises. 



He became a director in the Mer- 

 chants' Evxchange National Bank of New 

 York, the Kings County and Hamilton 

 Trust Companies of Brooklyn and the 

 Hudson River Paper Co. He was presi- 

 dent of the Smith Premier Typewriter 



