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parents and some of his sisters had arrived from Europe. 

 Until 1855 he acted as clerk in Philadelphia and New York, 

 and in the latter part of this year was employed in a 

 chemical factory of Brooklyn. In 1856 Mr. Maisch returned 

 to Philadelphia and accepted the position of clerk, with 

 E. B. Garrigues and Robert Shoemaker and Company, until 

 1859; he then took charge of one of the departments of 

 instruction in the School of Pharmacy for medical students, 

 which was conducted by Professor Parrish, in an upper 

 room in the building at the south-west corner of Eighth and 

 Arch Streets, the first story of which was occupied as his 

 drug store. In 1861 Mr. Maisch was called to the College 

 of Pharmacy of the City of New York, as Professor of 

 Pharmacy and Materia Medica, and for the time in which 

 he was not engaged in his duties at the College, he found 

 employment at the laboratory of Dr. E. R. Squibb. In 1863 

 Professor Maisch returned to Philadelphia to organize and 

 conduct the United States Army Laboratory, proposed by 

 Surgeon-General Hammond, and of this he was Director 

 until the close of the war. After the close of the war, 

 Professor Maisch opened a drug store at 1607 Ridge Avenue, 

 which he conducted until 1871, when he was compelled to 

 dispose of it, in order to give his whole attention to his 

 duties at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and the 

 secretaryship of the American Pharmaceutical Association. 

 In 1856 Mr. Maisch joined the American Pharmaceutical 

 Association, and in 1860 was made Reporter on the Progress 

 of Pharmacy. Here he introduced the arrangement of the 

 articles which has since been retained. In 1863 he was 

 made First Vice-President ; in 1865, was elected Permanent 

 Secretary, which position he retained until the time of his 

 death. 



