106    MEMOIRS  OF  PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
Pharmaceutical  world.  The  firm  of  Smith  &  Hodgson  were  the 
direct  predecessors  of  Bullock  &  Crenshaw. 
Motives  of  delicacy  preclude  my  saying  much  in  this  dis- 
course of  those  who  are  still  living  among  us,  honored  repre- 
resentatives  of  that  band  of  pioneers  who  laid  broad  and  deep 
the  foundations  of  our  College.  Peter  Williamson,  the  first 
Secretary,  still  a  participant  in  our  proceedings  and  a  warm 
friend  of  our  organization,  Charles  Ellis,  for  14  years  Secre- 
tary, now  our  respected  President,  and  George  D.  Wetherill, 
are,  I  believe,  with  Daniel  B.  Smith,  the  only  remaining  mem- 
bers .who  signed  the  constitution  at  the  first  organization  of  the 
College  of  Apothecaries. 
The  present  sketch  would,  however,  be  very  incomplete  with- 
out a  notice  of  Henry  Troth,  already  spoken  of  in  connection 
with  the  first  steps  taken  toward  the  organization  of  the  drug- 
gists and  apothecaries  of  the  city.  He  was  born  in  Talbot 
County,  Md.,  and  after  such  education  as  his  circumstances 
afibrded,  was  placed  in  the  drug  store  of  Jeremiah  Morris,  on 
the  north  side  of  Market  street  below  8th  street.  Near  the  close  of 
the  war  of  1812  he  embarked  in  business,  and  by  industry  and 
economy  reached  success.  He  was  a  leading  spirit  in  the  Col- 
lege for  more  than  20  years ;  for  13  years  Vice-president,  at  a 
time  when  the  President  was  seldom  in  attendance ;  he  presided 
at  the  meetings  with  digftity  and  impartiality.  He  was  seldom 
absent  from  his  post,  and  at  his  death,  in  the  summer  of  1842, 
strong  testimony  was  placed  on  the  records  of  the  College  to 
his  high  moral  worth,  combined  with  kindness  and  courtesy  of 
manner  and  many  estimable  traits  of  character.* 
It  may  not  be  uninteresting,  as  illustrative  of  the  progress  of 
the  times,  to  note  his  agency  in  the  introduction  of  gas  for  illu- 
mination, into  our  city.  He  was  for  13  years  a  member  of  the 
Common  Council,  (long  before  consolidation)  and  part  of  the  time 
its  President.  The  project  of  lighting  the  city  with  gas  met 
with  many  objections ;  among  others  equally  absurd,  that  the 
water  would  be  contaminated  by  the  vicinity  of  the  iron  water 
pipes  to  those  through  which  the  gas  would  be  conducted  under 
*  See  also  Memoir,  Am.  Journ.  Ph.,  Yol.  xviii,  p.  90. 
