THE 
AMERICAN  JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY. 
JULY,  1865. 
BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF  CHARLES  MARSHALL, 
First  President  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
Read  at  the  Meeting  of  the  College,  March,  1865. 
By  Dillwyn  Parrish. 
Charles  Marshall,  the  first  President  of  the  Philadelphia  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  on  the  8th  day  of 
5th  month,  1744,  and  died  on  the  22d  day  of  8th  month,  1825, 
aged  about  81  years. 
His  father,  Christopher  Marshall,  opened  a  drug  and  chemical 
store  about  the  middle  of  the  last  century,  on  the  south  side  of 
Chestnut,  above  Second  street,  Philadelphia.  His  business  was 
conducted  in  a  two-storied  building,  with  a  projecting  roof,  from 
which  was  suspended  a  large  gilded  ball,  the  sign  by  which  his 
store  was  designated.  One  of  the  newspapers  of  that  period  in- 
forms the  public  that  a  choice  assortment  of  fresh  teas  had  been 
added  to  the  stock  of  drugs  and  medicines.  His  son  and 
successor,  Charles  Marshall,  received  his  pharmaceutical  educa- 
tion in  this  establishment.  He  is  said  to  have  possessed  a  fine 
literary  taste,  and,  before  entering  upon  his  apprenticeship,  was 
well  instructed,  not  only  in  the  usual  branches  of  an  English 
education,  as  then  taught  in  the  best  schools,  but  also  in  the 
Latin  and  Greek  languages. 
On  attaining  his  majority,  Charles  Marshall  entered  into 
partnership  with  his  father  and  elder  brother,  and,  on  their  re- 
tirement from  the  business,  became  sole  proprietor.  Unlike  the 
pharmaceutists  of  the  present  day,  who  receive  a  large  propor- 
tion of  their  remedies  in  a  finished  state  from  the  extensive 
laboratories  which  ,  now  abound,  it  was  necessary  for  him  to  be 
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