Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  1 
February,  1904.  j 
Personal  Notes. 
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PERSONAL  NOTES. 
C.  Lewis  Diehl,  Professor  of  Pharmacy  in  the  Louisville  College  of  Phar- 
macy, has  retired  from  the  retail  drug  business  and  will  in  the  future  devote 
himself  to  his  literary  and  professional  work.  Professor  Diehl  has  had  an 
interesting  career.  He  was  apprenticed  to  the  late  Dr.  John  R.  Angney,  Fifth 
and  Spruce  Streets,  Philadelphia,  in  April,  1858,  and  graduated  from  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy  in  March,  1862.  Then,  until  the  early  fall  of  1862, 
he  had  Charge  of  the  laboratory  of  John  Wyeth  &  Brothers,  who  at  that  time 
had  large  army  contracts,  and  he  may  thus  claim  to  have  been  their  first  chemist 
in  the  manufacturing  line — leaving  them  only  because  he  considered  it  his  duty 
to  serve  in  the  Army.  Having  returned  early  in  1863,  discharged  on  account 
of  wounds,  he  secured  a  position  as  chemist  under  Maisch  in  the  U.  S.  A.  Labo- 
ratory at  Sixth  and  Oxford  Streets, ^in  Philadelphia,  remaining  until  January, 
1865,  when  it  became  evident  that  the  work  in  the  laboratory  would  languish, 
or  cease.  Taking  his  way  to  Chicago,  which  he  at  that  period  claimed  as  his 
home,  he  secured  a  position  with  the  firm  of  Bender,  Mahla  &  Co.,  manufac- 
turing chemists,  but  left  them  in  July,  having  received  an  invitation  to  reor- 
ganize and  manage  the  Louisville  Chemical  Works,  an  enterprise  which  had 
been  called  into  life  by  the  late  Dr.  J.  Lawrence  Smith  and  organized  by  the 
late  Dr.  Edward  R.  Squibb.  He  remained  in  charge  of  this  concern  until 
January,  1869,  when,  owing  to  a  business  disagreement  of  the  owners,  the 
Chemical  Works  passed  into  other  hands,  and  he  severed  his  connections  with 
them. 
In  the  early  summer  of  1869  he  purchased  a  store  at  the  southwest  corner  of 
First  and  Walnut  Streets,  Louisville,  where  he  continued  until  June,  1874,  when 
he  sold  out,  preparatory  to  opening  the  store  at  Third  and  Broadway,  which  he 
has  recently  (November  28th)  disposed  of  with  the  intention  of  relinquishing 
active  participation  in  the  practice  of  pharmacy. 
Professor  Diehl  joined  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  in  1863  and 
attended  its  meetings  for  the  first  time  at  Detroit  in  1866.  He  was  elected 
chairman  of  the  Committee  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy,  and  re-elected  at 
New  York  in  1867.  He  made  a  volunteer  report  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy 
at  Richmond  in  1873,  in  consequence  of  the  inability  of  the  chairman,  elected 
at  Cleveland,  to  serve  ;  was  elected  to  the  newly  created  office  of  Reporter  on 
the  Progress  of  Pharmacy,  and  re-elected  annually  until  189 r,  when  he  declined 
re-election  ;  but  was  again  elected  in  1895,  and  annually  since  then.  In  1874 
he  had  the  honor  of  being  elected  President  of  the  Association,  holding  that 
office  in  addition  to  that  of  Reporter. 
In  1871  Professor  Diehl  assisted  in  organizing  and  establishing  the  Louisville 
College  of  Pharmacy,  served  as  its  President  during  the  first  decade,  and  also 
as  one  of  its  teachers  for  many  years — resigning  as  Professor  of  Pharmacy  about 
the  middle  of  the  eighties,  but  again  entering  upon  its  duties  in  1894.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Kentucky  Board  of  Pharmacy  for  quite  a  number  of  terms — 
serving  on  the  first  board  appointed  under  the  law,  and  is  now  a  member, 
serving  a  second  consecutive  term  of  five  years,  after  having  been  out  of  the 
board  for  quite  a  period.  He  has  also  been  a  member  of  the  Kentucky  Phar- 
maceutical Association  from  its  birth,  and  honored  by  being  elected  its  President 
several  years  ago. 
