104    MEMOIKS  OF  PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
man  had  been  previously  engaged  on  Second  street  between 
Arch  and  Race  streets.* 
The  father  of  William  Lehman  died  when  he  was  quite  young, 
leaving  him  considerable  property,  which  was  increased  by  his 
own  success  in  business.  He  commenced  about  the  year  1802, 
at  No.  97  south  2d  street,  from  whence  he  removed  in  about  four 
^  or  five  years  to  No.  76  S.  2d  street,  (old  numbers)  below  Chest- 
nut street.  Here  the  business  was  conducted  with  partners, 
under  the  peculiar  title  William  Lehman,  William  Smith  &  Son. 
After  eight  or  ten  years  the  firm  became  Lehman  &  Smith,  and 
about  1819  was  dissolved,  William  Lehman  remaining  alone  till 
about  1822,  when  he  took  into  partnership  Algernon  S.  Roberts, 
a  name  held  in  kind  remembrance  in  our  College  for  his  bequest 
of  funds  to  maintain  our  library  and  cabinet. 
William  Lehman  was  a  studious  and  industrious  man,  a  Latin, 
French  and  German  scholar,  and  visited  Europe  several  times. 
A  warm  advocate  for  the  internal  improvements  of  Pennsylvania, 
he  was  elected  to  the  State  Legislature  in  1814,  and  re-elected 
for  15  years,  having  always  in  view  the  prosecution  of  these 
great  works  which  he  lived  to  see  commenced  but  not  completed. 
It  was  in  the  capacity  of  a  legislator  that  he  was  enabled  to  serve 
the  infant  College  of  Apothecaries.  He  obtained  the  charter, 
and  it  is  said  took  the  liberty,  on  his  own  responsibility,  of  alter- 
ing the  title,  from  the  College  of  Apothecaries  to  the  College  of 
Pharmacy,  a  more  euphonious  and  more  appropriate  name,  thus 
compelled  our  unassuming  "  apothecaries  "  to  get  together  and 
sanction  the  change.  Wm.  Lehman  was  taken  ill  at  Harrisburg 
and  died  there  on  the  29th  of  March,  1829,  in  the  50th  year  of 
his  age. 
He  was  a  bachelor,  and  left  a  legacy  of  $10,000  (a  more  con- 
siderable sum  in  those  days  than  now,)  to  the  Philadelphia 
Athenseum  for  buildings  a  hall,  which  was  "  nursed"  with  care 
*  The  name  of  Lehman  has  been  much  connected  with  drugs  in  our 
city.  Dr.  John  Lehman  was  in  full  practice  in  1785,  residing  at  No.  16 
Key's  Alley  (New  street)  and  about  the  same  time  Joseph  Lehman  was 
in  business  as  an  apothecary,  at  No.  73  N.  3d  st.  In  1824  Wm.  E.  Leh- 
man was  a  druggist  at  77  Lombard  street.  Dr.  George  F.  Lehman  was 
Physician  to  the  Lazaretto. 
