538        After-Thoughts  of  Historical  Exhibition.  {A£ov£mb£%™' 
in  the  closing  years  of  his  life.  It  is  at  this  stage  that  we  meet 
with  the  pleasing  story  of  heroism  and  self-sacrifice  on  the  part  of 
Charles  Marshall's  daughter  Elizabeth. 
This  estimable  maiden  took  hold  of  the  shattered  business  and 
by  dint  of  hard  work  and  strict  attention  to  the  petty  and  some- 
times annoying  details  not  only  reconstructed  the  business  so  as  to 
insure  a  livelihood  for  the  family,  but  ultimately  regained  for  them 
a  position  of  comparative  independence. 
Many  of  the  men,  who  have  been  active  in  the  development  of 
pharmacy  in  this  country,  owed  much  of  their  early  training  to  the 
watchful  care  of  this  early  and  eminently  successful  woman  phar- 
macist. Among  these  was  Charles  Ellis,  whom  we  will  have  occasion 
to  mention  later. 
While  the  management  of  the  business  affairs  appears  to  have 
been  placed  entirely  in  the  hands  of  the  daughter,  the  father,  Charles 
Marshall,  took  an  active  interest  in  the  professional  development  of 
pharmacy.  Despite  his  advanced  years  he  took  a  lively  interest  in 
the  organization  of  the  College  of  Apothecaries.  This  active  inter- 
est in  matters  of  common  good  no  doubt  accounts  for  the  words  of 
high  admiration  with  which  he  was  frequently  spoken  of  by  his 
contemporaries. 
Near  the  portrait  of  this  interesting  personage  was  that  of  another 
equally  as  important.  Daniel  B.  Smith,  the  third  president  of  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and  the  first  president  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  July 
14,  1792.  The  varied  and  valuable  services  that  he  accomplished  for 
the  development  of  pharmacy  have  never  received  adequate  recog- 
nition. He  was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  College, 
attended  the  first  meeting  in  Carpenters'  Hall,  February  23,  1 821, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  committee  appointed  at  that  meeting  to 
consider  ways  and  means  of  a  thorough  organization  of  all  apothe- 
caries. He  was  the  first  secretary  of  the  College  and  subsequently 
was  the  moving  spirit  in  the  inauguration  of  the  American  Jour- 
nal of  Pharmacy,  of  which  he  was  the  first  editor  as  well  as  chair- 
man of  the  Publication  Committee.  He  also  contributed  many 
timely  and  interesting  articles,  the  first  article  in  the  first  number, 
"  Epsom  Salts  and  Magnesia,"  being  from  his  pen. 
Daniel  B.  Smith,  after  serving  twenty-five  years  as  president  of 
the  College,  tiding  it  over  the  most  trying  period  of  its  existence, 
