THE  AMERICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY 
Carl  Svante  Nicanor  Hallberg  was  born  in  Sweden,'  October  13, 
1856,  in  the  city  of  Helsingborg,  on  the  Sound,  directly  opposite 
the  Danish  city  of  Elsinore,  with  its  ancient  fort,  in  which  was  laid 
the  scene  of  the  story  of  Kamlet.  His  parents  were  Carl  and  Anna 
(Kohrtz).  An  extended  sketch  of  his  early  life  will  be  found  in 
the  November  Bulletin  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
He  served  as  an  apprentice  with  the  wholesale  drug  house  of 
M.  K.  Smith  &  Co.  which  had  just  succeeded  Smith  &  Shoemaker 
at  243  North  Third  Street,  Mahlon  N.  Kline  and  Washington  J. 
Sellers,  an  uncle  of  Mr.  Sellers,  of  Altoona,  having  become  partners 
in  the  firm.  A  position  was  then,  fortunately,  secured  with  E.  B. 
Garrigues  &  Co.,  Tenth  Street  and  Fairmount  Avenue,  where, 
under  the  direction  of  Edwin  M'.  Boring,  a  most  thorough  training 
and  valuable  experience  was  afforded.  This  pharmacy  was  a  reve- 
lation; no  patent  medicines  in  the  store  proper,  no  soda-water,  nor 
cigars,  everything  in  the  most  perfect  order.  Rows  of  stock-bottles 
in  the  cellar  labelled  in  a  bold  hand — a  master  hand,  which  he  then 
recognized  but  failed  to  fully  appreciate  until  years  subsequently — 
that  of  Professor  Maisch,  who  had  been  employed  in  the  pharmacy 
in  earlier  years. 
The  summer  necessitated  a  change  in  situation,  with  J.  O.  Eber- 
hard,  and  again  at  the  opening  of  the  College  with  A.  Nebeker, 
where  he  remained  until  leaving  Philadelphia  for  Chicago  in  the 
spring  of  1877,  having  remained  in  the  city  after  graduating  in 
*  We  acknowledge  the  courtesy  of  Prof.  W.  B.  Day,  of  the  University 
of  Illinois  School  of  Pharmacy,  in  furnishing  the  data  contained  in  this 
sketch,  as  also  for  the  halftone  used  in  the  reproduction  of  the  photograph 
of  Professor  Hallberg. — Editor. 
CARL  S.  N.  HALLBERG.* 
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