38o 
Committee  on  Necrology. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Aug.  19 17. 
the  oldest  classes  of  the  alumni.  The  name  Gutekunst  means 
"  good  art."  His  father  came  from  Germany  about  the  early  part 
of  the  last  century  and  settled  in  Germantown.  After  receiving  a 
common-school  education,  young  Gutekunst  worked  for  Avery 
Tobey,  a  druggist  at  121 5  Market  Street.  While  in  this  store  he 
gave  some  attention  to  chemistry  and  electricity — the  latter  a  science 
which  had  not  then  advanced  much  beyond  electro-plating,  electro- 
typing  and  telegraphy.  Daguerreotypes,  although  they  had  been 
made  for  several  years,  were  still  regarded  as  great  curiosities. 
Mr.  Gutekunst  conceived  the  idea  of  making  copper  electrotypes 
from  daguerreotypes,  and  succeeded  in  doing  so,  though  the  process 
did  not  become  of  commercial  value. 
Mr.  Gutekunst  graduated  from  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  in  1853,  ms  preceptor  at  that  time  being  William  M. 
Powell,  of  Germantown,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  He  very  soon  gave  up 
the  drug  business  and  took  up  photography  as  his  life  work.  True 
to  his  name  he  became  the  world's  most  noted  photographer.  He 
began  business  at  No.  706  Arch  Street  and  later  moved  to  704  on 
the  same  street.  In  1864  he  moved  to  712  Arch  Street,  where  he 
remained  in  business  until  the  time  of  his  death,  April  27,  191 7. 
He  also  had  a  studio  at  1700  North  Broad  Street. 
Mr.  Gutekunst  had  photographed  more  of  the  world's  celebrated 
people  than  perhaps  any  man  in  this  country.  Among  the  person- 
ages who  sat  before  his  camera  were  Presidents  of  the  United 
States,  famous  generals,  ecclesiastics,  actors  and  actresses,  littera- 
teurs and  statesmen.  He  had  received  decorations  from  kings  and 
emperors. 
Among  those  whose  portraits  he  made  were  the  scientists,  Lords 
Kelvin  and  Herschell,  and  Professors  Tyndall  and  Leidy,  Baron 
Takaki,  Wu  Ting  Fang,  Presidents  Grant,  Cleveland  and  McKinley, 
Generals  Sherman,  Meade,  Longstreet,  Beauregard,  Hancock,  Rose- 
crans  and  a  full  score  more  of  the  commanders  on  both  sides  in  the 
Civil  War;  Admirals  Read,  Schley,  Melville,  Casey,  McNair  and 
Watson  among  the  old  seadogs  who  worried  their  country's  enemies. 
Clergymen  who  sat  for  him  included  Archbishops  Bailey  and 
Ryan,  Bishops  Phillips  Brooks,  Chatard,  Foss,  Davis,  Fowler,  Cole- 
man, Kendrick,  Hortsmann,  McCabe,  Potter,  Simpson,  Talbot, 
Whitaker,  Walden,  Bowman  and  a  dozen  more  wearers  of  the 
purple  of  the  church.    Henry  W.  Longfellow,  E.  C.  Stedman,  Walt 
