320 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



after a tedious voyage in a sailing vessel, the family 

 ascended the Mississippi on a very slow steamboat, and 

 reached St. Louis about Christmas. His father purchased a 

 property in Belleville, St. Clair County, Illinois, some four- 

 teen miles east of St. Louis, and there opened a drug store. 

 Young Adolph attended the public schools in Belleville for 

 five years, and also received private instruction in Latin, 

 French and German. 



At the age of twelve he entered the store of Edward T. 

 Robinson, at the southwest corner of Fourth and Market 

 Streets, St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Eobinson had then but 

 recently graduated from the Philadelphia College of Phar- 

 macy, having been apprenticed to the well-known firm of 

 Bullock and Crenshaw. Mr. Miller remained here for 

 nearly four years, the store in the meanwhile passing into 

 the hands of Robert Parham and Samuel W. Hendel — both 

 of them former Philadelphians. ]\Ir. Hendel was also a 

 graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, having 

 been employed in the store of Henry C. Blair. 



In the meanwhile, the father, W. H. Miller, had sold 

 his property in Belleville, and opened a drug store in the 

 then frontier post of St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was 

 joined, in 1857, by his son. While assisting his father, he 

 continued his studies in Latin, Greek and mathematics in 

 the College of St. Paul. On account of the high praise 

 which had so frequently been bestowed on the Philadelphia 

 College of Pharmacy by all of his former employers, ^Ir. 

 Miller early resolved to avail himself of its teaching 

 resources. With the opening of navigation in the spring of 

 1860 — there being no railroads in the Territory of Minne- 

 sota at that time — he descended the Mississippi to St. Louis, 



