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tion  was  introduced  does  not  appear,  and  there  is  no  positive  evidence 
that  such  is  the  case.  From  the  fact,  however,  that  Dr.  Abraham 
Chovet,  one  of  the  first  physicians  in  this  country  to  write  prescrip- 
tions, was  an  intimate  friend  of  the  family,  particularly  of  Christopher 
Marshall  and  his  two  remaining  sons,  it  is  quite  probable  that  he 
patronized  the  store  with  which  they  were  connected. 
The  firm  gradually  increased  their  business,  and  besides  being 
importers  as  well  as  exporters  of  all  kinds  of  crude  drugs  and  doing 
a  general  wholesale  and  retail  drug  business,  also  ventured  into  the 
manufacture  of  chemicals. 
ELIZABETH  MARSHAU. 
From  a  Silhouette  in  Possession  of  Charles  Marshall,  Germantown. 
This  manufactory  is  referred  to,  in  "  Watson's  Annals  of  Phila- 
delphia," as  being  in  "  a  grim  and  forbidding. looking  building  on 
Third  Street  near  the  stone  bridge  over  the  Cohocsink."  It  was 
generally  shunned  by  the  small  boy  of  that  period  on  account  of 
the  gruesome  tales  that  had  been  circulated  in  connection  with  it 
and  also  on  account  of  the  noisome  odors  that  emanated  from  it  at 
certain  times.  Christopher  Marshall  died  May  6,  1797,  aged  eighty- 
seven  years  and  five  months.  Shortly  after  this  Charles  Marshall 
retired  from  active  business,  retaining,  however,  a  pecuniary  interest 
in  the  firm. 
The  unfortunate  circumstance  that  brought  disaster  to  the  now 
aged  Charles  Marshall  is  recorded  in  the  biographical  sketch  by 
