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Haaau, accompanied theia in their excursions through the Valley of the 

 Main, assisting them in the promulgation of revolutionary sentiments. 



In 1849, while engaged in this work, he was arrested at Sinsheim and 

 sentenced to four and a half yeara' imprisonment with hard labor; but 

 through the connivance of friends he soon after effected his escape and 

 managed to emigrate to America. Landing almost penniless in Balti- 

 more, young Maisch took up for a time with factory work, but soon 

 managed through his fondness for natural science to make the acquaint- 

 ance of Drs. Wiss and Vogler, who aided him in the study of pharmacy 

 and gave him employment for a time during the years 1850-51 in a drug 

 store owned by the former. This store being sold, Mr. Maisch removed 

 to Washington, where he served in a drug store until 1853, when his 

 parents and sisters having come to Philadelphia, he joined them there. 

 For about two years he acted as drug clerk in Philadelphia and New 

 York and finally entered a chemical factory in Brooklyn. From 1856 to 

 1859 he was employed by the firm of E. B. Garrigues and Robert Shoe- 

 maker, of Philadelpliia, and in the latter year he accepted an instructor's 

 position in the School of Pharmacy conducted by Prof. Parrish in an upper 

 room at the southwest corner of Eighth and Arch streets. 



Here his natural love for research, his tact and ability as a teacher 

 attracted attention and led to his call to the Professorship of Pharmacy 

 and Materia Medica in the College of Pliarmacy of the City of New York, 

 Ins spai-e time being employed in the laboratory of Dr. E. R. Squibb. 

 Prof. Maisch returned to Philadelphia in 1863, when under Surgeon- 

 General Hammond he organized the U. S. Army Laboratory, which, 

 during the two and a half years in which he conducted it, is said to have 

 effected a saving to the Government of nearly a million of dollars. After 

 the War and until 1871 Prof. Maisch carried on a retail drug business at 

 1607 Ridge avenue, but finally gave it up on account of his increasing 

 duties at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and as the Secretary of 

 the American Pharmaceutical Association, of which he had been from 

 1856 one of the most active members. 



It was in 1866 that John Maisch succeeded William Proctor, Jr., in the 

 Chair of Pharmacy, but in the ensuing year he exchanged Chairs with 

 Prof. Parrish, assuming the title of Professor of Materia Medica and 

 Botany. This position Prof Maisch retained until his death on the 10th 

 of September, 1892. In 1860 he was elected a member of the Board of 

 Trustees of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and ten years later 

 accepted the editorship of the American Journal of Pliarmacy. That 

 John Maisch was a man of unwearied industry, absolute integrity and 

 profound knowledge, is the unanimous testimony of all who were familiar 

 with him and with his teachings and writings, a fact which was empha- 

 sized by the conference of the Hanbury Gold Medal upon him by the 

 Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain for distinguished services and 

 original research in the natural history of drugs. The following is a list 

 of Prof. Maisch's contributions to science : 



