THE  AMEEICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY 
By  John  K.  Thum,  Ph.G.,  ^^^i^™.^-^ 
Pharmacist  at  the  German  Hospital,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Martin  Inventius  Wilbert  was  born  at  West  Leyden,  Lewis 
County,  N.  Y.,  June  the  first,  1865.  He  was  born  of  German  par- 
ents, the  second  child  in  a  large  family.  At  the  age  of  four  years 
and  two  months  his  education  was  begun  in  a  nearby  country  school. 
Subsequently  he  attended  a  private  school  in  Utica,  where  he  gave 
particular  attention  to  the  study  of  the  language  of  his  forbears,  and 
later  on  attended  Archambault's  Academy  in  the  city  of  Montreal. 
His  family  on  both  the  paternal  and  maternal  side  came  to  this 
country  in  1852,  his  father  having  been  born  in  Prussia  and  his 
mother  in  southern  Germany.  Their  people  were  pioneers  in  what 
is  now  known  as  the  Adirondack  Preserve  of  New  York  State,  clear- 
ing out  their  land  and  building  homes  of  logs,  which,  as  progress 
manifested  itself,  were  followed  by  frame  buildings. 
Dr.  Wilbert  had  the  advantage  of  being  brought  up  under  an  en- 
vironment and  home  training  whose  influence  manifestly  shaped  his 
whole  career.  His  father  had  been  educated  in  the  German  schools 
of  north  Germany,  and  as  these  schools  are  noted  for  their  thorough- 
ness and  the  strict  discipline  with  which  they  are  conducted,  the 
studious  habits  and  sense  of  discipline  which  he  acquired  naturally 
influenced  and  guided  him  in  the  training  of  his  son.  Those  of  us 
here  in  Philadelphia  who  were  associated  with  Dr.  Wilbert  in  his 
work,  and  in  a  position  to  observe  his  whole  career,  can  readily  tes- 
tify to  the  thoroughness  with  which  he  did  his  work;  no  detail  of 
it  ever  escaped  his  watchful  eyes. 
Of  all  the  mental  faculties  that  man  can  be  blessed  with,  un- 
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