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Marshall,  first  President  of  this  College,  -whose  name  stood  prominent 
among  the  Apothecaries  and  Druggists  of  Philadelphia  in  that  day,  and 
■whose  store,  in  Chesnut  Street  above  Second,  was  the  frequent  resort  of 
many  of  the  leading  physicians  and  citizens.  Here  Frederick  Brown 
remained  for  ten  years,  having  obtained  the  confidence  of  his  employers, 
and  been  promoted  to  the  chief  management  of  the  business.  On  his  de- 
termining, in  1822,  to  embark  in  business  on  his  own  account,  he  was 
proffered  a  loan  by  these  friends  of  his  youth,  which  aided  him  much  in 
establishing  himself  at  the  location  which  has  been,  fur  so  many  years, 
connected  with  his  name— a  loan  which  his  very  first  year's  business 
enabled  him  to  repay.  This  act  of  kindness,  added  to  the  many  incidents 
of  their  intercourse,  produced  in  Frederick  Brown  a  warm  attachment  for 
the  several  members  of  the  family  of  Marshall,  whose  memory  he  cher- 
ished, and  whose  virtues  constituted  a  favorite  subject  of  conversation 
with  him  in  later  life.  On  a  recent  occasion,  when  recounting  the  inci- 
dents of  his  youthful  days,  he  completed  a  warm  eulogium  on  the  character 
of  his  dear  old  friends,  Charles  and  Patience  Marshall,  with  the  assertion, 
which  in  this  presence  will  well  bear  repetition,  that  "  few  nobler  men 
ever  lived  than  Charles  Marshall." 
His  father  died  in  1815,  and  from  this  time,  when  he  was  but  nineteen 
years  of  age,  the  care  of  his  mother  and  younger  sister  devolved  entirely 
upon  him  ;  from  this  exercise  of  filial  love  in  his  youth,  he  experienced 
the  strength  derived  from  early  restraints  upon  self-indulgence,  and  devo- 
tion to  high  and  noble  duties,  and  in  after  life  acknowledged  himself  a 
better  man  on  this  account. 
In  1833  he  married  Charlotte  Augusta  Hoppin,  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  a 
companion  with  whom  he  lived  in  much  harmony,  his  interests  centering 
strongly  in  his  home.  His  wife,  daughter  and  three  sons  survive  him, 
and  the  oldest  son,  a  graduate  of  this  College,  bears  his  name,  and  suc- 
ceeds to  his  large  and  prosperous  business,  at  the  north-east  corner  of 
Fifth  and  Chestnut  Streets.  This  location  is  almost  within  the  shadow  of 
Independence  Hall,  and  was  connected  with  the  administration  of  our 
government  during  the  Presidency  of  Washington.  The  summer  residence 
of  Frederick  Brown  was  at  Burlington,  N.  J.,  where  he  had  ample  oppor- 
tunity to  gratify  his  taste  for  horticulture. 
Though  of  latter  years  not  actively  engaged  in  the  affairs  of  this  College, 
we  find,  by  reference  to  its  Minutes,  that  he  was  one  of  the  Committee  ap- 
pointed at  the  original  meeting  in  Carpenter's  Hall,  February  23d,  1821, 
who,  at  the  second  meeting,  held  March  13th,  brought  forward  the  Con- 
stitution, which  was  the  basis  of  the  organization  of  this  College.  He 
was  also  elected  one  of  the  first  Board  of  Trustees. 
His  connection  with  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  as  one  of  its  Managers, 
continued  for  23  consecutive  years  ;  during  this  time  that  noble  Institution 
has  undergone  vast  improvement  and  extension,  and  the  Department  for 
