244  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF  HENRY  TROTH. 
When  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  assumed  to  issue 
diplomas  to  practitioners  of  pharmacy,  and  to  prescribe  the  con- 
ditions of  the  grant,  the  pharmaceutists  of  Philadelphia  felt  it  to 
be  an  infraction  of  their  rights,  and  established  this  College  in 
1824  ;  and  it  is  a  proof  of  their  appreciation  of  the  character  of 
Charles  Marshall,  that  he  was  unanimously  elected  their  first 
President.  Though  far  advanced  in  years,  and  unable  to  take 
an  active  part  in  its  proceedings,  the  measure  had  his  full  support 
and  encouragement. 
BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF  HENRY  TROTH, 
Late  Vice-President  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
Read  at  the  meeting  of  the  College,  September,  1865. 
Henry  Troth  was  born  in  Talbot  County,  Maryland,  Ninth 
month  (September)  4th,  1794,  being  descended  from  William 
Troth,  who  settled  under  the  humane  and  tolerant  administra- 
tion of  Lord  Baltimore,  in  1685.  The  boyhood  of  Henry  Troth 
was  chiefly  spent  on  a  farm  distant  from  any  school,  and  at  about 
the  age  of  14  he  accompanied  a  near  relative  to  Tioga  County, 
Pennsylvania,  then  known  as  the  "backwoods,"  where  he  spent 
two  years  in  pursuit  of  deer,  wild  turkey  and  other  game,  with 
the  occasional  experience  of  a  farmer's  life. 
He  then  came  to  Philadelphia  to  seek  his  fortunes,  and  en- 
tered with  Jeremiah  Morris,  Druggist  and  Apothecary,  on  the 
north  side  of  Market  below  8th  street.  He  was  an  inmate  of 
the  family  of  his  employer,  and  his  only  assistant.  His  master 
was  esteemed  a  superior  man,  but  had  no  taste  for  the  drudgery 
of  the  shop,  as  illustrating  which,  Henry  used  to  relate  that,  on 
one  occasion,  he  obtained  leave  of  absence  to  visit  his  family  in 
Maryland,  in  that  day  a  tedious  journey  by  stage,  on  condition 
that  he  should  leave  an  ample  supply  of  salts,  senna  and  manna, 
magnesia,  cream  of  tartar,  and  so  forth,  all  ready  folded  in 
"  fipenny-bit  packages,"  that  his  master  might  dispatch  business 
without  so  often  soiling  his  hands.  Human  nature  seems  to 
carry  very  similar  traits  through  generations,  as  they  pass. 
Henry  Troth  was  both  an  industrious  and  a  studious  youth, 
and  he  made  the  best  of  the  few  useful  and  interesting  books 
