366  Twenty- fifth  Anniversary  of       { Am- Z™r\gj?rm' 
TWENTY-FIFTH  ANNIVERSARY  OF  THE  H.  K. 
MULFORD  COMPANY. 
In  1887,  H.  K.  Mulford,  recently  graduated  from  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy,  purchased  the  drug  store  at  18th  and 
Market  Sts.,  Philadelphia,  from  the  then  owners,  Remington  and 
Sayre.  He  conducted  the  business  under  the  firm  name  of  H.  K. 
Mulford  and  Company. 
Two  years  later  Milton  Campbell  bought  a  half  interest  in  the 
business  and  in  1890  E.  V.  Pechin  associated  himself  with  them. 
Like  Mr.  Mulford,  the  new  partners  were  graduates  of  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy.  At  this  time  the  firm's  largest  assets 
were  an  invincible  determination  to  do  business  as  well  as  it  was 
possible  to  do  it,  and  in  an  outlook  far  wider  than  might  be  expected 
from  their  age  and  experience. 
It  may  be  interesting  to  note  that  the  little  corner  drug  store  at 
1800  Market  St.  had  an  interesting  history.  Professor  Joseph  P. 
Remington,  Dean  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  may 
well  be  deemed  the  Nestor  of  his  profession.  Dr.  Lucius  E.  Sayre 
is  the  present  Dean  of  the  Faculty  and  Professor  of  Pharmacy  in 
the  University  of  Kansas  Their  predecessor,  W.  J.  Simes,  was  the 
first  rectifier  of  camphor  in  America,  the  store  passed  to  him  from 
Henry  Bower,  a  pioneer  manufacturer  of  glycerin,  and  he  in  turn 
took  title  from  Samuel  Eastlack,  the  first  manufacturer  of  medicated 
lozenges. 
This  business  history  dating  back  to  1826  was  necessarily  a 
stimulant  to  the  young  firm  and  results  show  that  early  in  their 
career  they  resolved  to  live  up  to  their  ancestry,  and  that  they  held 
steadfast  to  their  resolution  is  evidenced  by  the  fact  that  today,  after 
a  lapse  of  twenty-five  years,  the  young  men  who  presided  over  the 
retail  drug  store  are  the  arbiters  of  the  destinies  of  a  two  million 
dollar  corporation,  a  corporation  favorably  known  in  every  quarter 
of  the  globe. 
Mr.  Milton  Campbell  is  the  president,  Mr.  H.  K.  Mulford  the 
vice-president,  and  Mr.  E.  V.  Pechin  the  secretary  of  the  H.  K. 
Mulford  company. 
This,  in  itself,  is  quite  uncommon,  and  when  we  add  the  state- 
ment that  the  original  members  of  the  firm  have  through  good  and 
bad  times,  through  all  troubles  and  reverses,  through  all  periods  of 
