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our  beloved  country,  and  he  said  he  had  hoped  to  see  the  end  of  this  foul 
rebellion.  On  the  morning  of  the  27th  of  February,  1864,  ho  breathed 
his  last. 
Samuel  C.  Sheppard  was  born  on  the  7th  of  Third  month,  (March,) 
1803,  at  Greenwich,  Cumberland  County,  New  Jersey.  Prior  to  1820  he 
came  to  Philadelphia,  and  was  placed  with  Thomas  McClintock,  then  the 
proprietor  of  the  store  in  South  Ninth  Street,  (now  207.)  to  acquire  a 
knowledge  of  the  business  of  Druggist  and  Apothecary.  When  he  attained 
his  majority  he  obtained  the  situation  of  Apothecary  to  the  Pennsylvania 
Hospital,  where  he  remained  for  about  eighteen  months,  and  on  with- 
drawing therefrom  entered  into  business  on  his  own  account,  at  the  store  in 
which  he  had  been  an  apprentice.  This  old  stand,  which  thus  became 
identified  with  his  name,  was  kept  by  him  as  a  retail  dispensing  store 
the  remainder  of  his  life,  a  period  of  near  forty  years.  He  changed,  per- 
haps, less  than  most  of  the  objects  around  him,  and  the  march  of  improve- 
ment and  enterprize  left  him  rather  in  the  rear,  but  his  store  still  continued 
to  enjoy  a  share  of  the  patronage  of  the  neighborhood.  He  was  removed 
by  death  on  the  7th  of  10th  month,  (October,)  1863.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  religious  Society  of  Friends.  In  the  days  of  his  pupilage  the 
school  of  Pharmacy  of  this  College  was  not  fully  organized,  though  it  is 
believed  he  was  among  the  first  of  its  students.  He  became  a  member  of 
the  College  in  1825. 
Theodore  Dilkes  was  born  in  New  Jersey,  on  the  28th  of  October, 
1835.  He  came  to  this  city  at  about  the  age  of  seventeen,  and  entered 
the  store  of  Henry  M.  Zollickoffer,  at  the  corner  of  6th  and  Pine  streets,  as 
an  apprentice  to  the  Drug  and  Apothecary  business.  Under  the  care  of 
his  experienced  preceptor,  one  of  the  old  and  highly  respected  members  of 
this  College,  he  acquired  proficiency  in  the  business  of  his  choice,  and 
graduated  in  our  school  in  the  spring  of  1856. 
On  the  death  of  his  employer  he  became  his  successor  in  business,  and 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  College  in  1858.  He  was  happily  married, 
and  a  prosperous  future  seemed  before  him,  when  the  seeds  of  that  insid- 
ious disease,  pulmonary  consumption,  began  to  develop  themselves,  and 
an  illness  of  nearly  three  years,  during  one  year  of  which  he  was  prevent- 
ed from  attending  to  his  business,  terminated  in  death,  on  the  26th  of 
November,  1863.  A  consistent  member  of  the  Methodist  Church,  his  at- 
tention had  long  been  turned  to  those  interests  which  are  eternal. 
