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Elizabeth  Marshall. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1904. 
Dillwyn  Parrish  (A.  J.  P.,  1865,  page  242),  as  follows:  u  A  few  years 
after  his  retirement  from  active  business,  the  establishment,  with 
which  his  name  had  been  for  many  years  associated,  loaned  the  en- 
dorsement of  the  firm  to  a  large  amount,  and  involved  all  connected 
with  it  in  bankruptcy.  The  senior  partner,  who  was  entirely  igno- 
rant of  these  proceedings,  was  then  in  advanced  life,  but  met  the 
shock  with  fortitude  and  without  hesitation  gave  up  his  property  for 
the  benefit  of  his  creditors. 
"  This  sad  occurrence  made  it  necessary  to  change  his  manner  of 
life,  and  in  1804  it  was  concluded  that  his  daughter  Elizabeth,  a  lady 
of  singular  good  sense  and  varied  attainments,  should  open  a  store 
and  conduct  the  business  of  a  pharmaceutist,  with  the  aid  of  her 
father.  The  small  front  parlor  of  their  dwelling,  then  56  Chestnut 
Street,  opposite  Strawberry  Alley,  was  appropriated  to  this  purpose." 
In  this  connection  it  may  be  of  interest  to  note  that  the  name, 
Elizabeth  Marshall,  apothecary,  does  not  appear  in  any  of  the  early 
directories  of  Philadelphia ;  it  does  appear,  however,  as  a  con- 
tributor to  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  in  the  printed  records  of  that 
institution. 
That  the  store  at  56  Chestnut  Street  was  well  thought  of  at  the 
time,  would  appear  from  the  following  quotation,  taken  from  an 
address  by  Daniel  B.  Smith,  delivered  before  the  Philadelphia  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy,  September  24,  1829.    (A.  J.  P.,  1829,  page  241.) 
"  Less  than  thirty  years  ago  almost  the  only  apothecary's  shop  in 
Philadelphia,  where  the  physician  was  sure  of  obtaining  the  latest 
foreign  preparations,  of  having  his  medicines  prepared  under  the 
eye  of  the  master  and  with  competent  pharmaceutic  skill,  or  in 
which  a  strict  system  of  accountability  was  carried  through  the  de- 
tails of  the  shop,  was  that  of  Charles  Marshall,  the  first  president  of 
this  institution." 
When  we  remember  that  all  of  the  details  of  this  shop  were  pre- 
sided over  by  the  daughter,  it  is  indeed  a  well-merited  compliment. 
From  a  monetary  point  of  view,  the  business  was  successful  from 
the  very  start.  This  was,  no  doubt,  largely  due  to  the  fact  that 
many  of  the  leading  physicians  and  business  men,  sympathizing 
with  the  misfortune  that  had  come  to  Charles  Marshall,  a  man  well 
known  and  greatly  admired  for  his  probity  and  ability,  were  liberal 
in  their  patronage.  It  was  little  wonder  then  that  the  business  grew 
rapidly,  and  that  the  store  had  to  be  repeatedly  enlarged  to  meet 
the  constantly-increasing  demands  for  space. 
