Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Jan.,  1894. 
Prof.  J.  M.  Maisch. 
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so  prevalent  at  that  time.  Maisch  assisted  in  this  with  all  his 
powers,  and  in  consequence  he  left  the  service  of  the  State,  as  he 
thought  it  was  inconsistent  to  be  in  its  service  in  the  daytime,  and 
working  against  it  at  night.  In  1849,  he  accompanied  the  Turners 
on  an  excursion  to  Baden,  and  was  captured  at  Sinsheim,  but  with 
the  assistance  of  some  comrades  he  escaped  from  prison  and  returned 
home,  and  ultimately  emigrated  to  America,  landing  in  Baltimore. 
On  his  arrival  he  was  almost  penniless,  and  to  supply  the  necessaries 
of  life  he  obtained  employment,  in  a  paper-box  manufactory,  and 
subsequently  in  a  mattress  factory  until  about  half  a  year  later  he 
made  the  acquaintance  of  Dr.  Wiss  ;  this  gentleman  desired  to  open 
a  drug  store,  which  he  afterwards  succeeded  in  doing,  and  Mr. 
Maisch  took  charge  of  the  store  for  him  during  a  few  months  in 
1850,  after  being  instructed  by  Dr.  Wiss  and  Dr.  Vogler,  and  gain- 
ing more  knowledge  from  books  placed  at  his  disposal  by  Dr.  Wiss; 
Towards  the  end  of  185  1,  the  drug  store  was  sold  to  other  parties, 
and  Maisch  then  obtained  employment  in  Washington,  where  he 
held  the  position  of  assistant  in  a  drug  store  until  1853,  when  he 
went  to  Philadelphia,  as  his  parents  and  some  of  his  sisters  had 
arrived  there  from  Europe.  Until  1855,  he  acted  as  clerk  in  Phila- 
delphia and  New  York  and  in  the  latter  part  of  this  year  was  em- 
ployed in  a  chemical  factory  of  Brooklyn.  In  1856,  Mr.  Maisch 
returned  to  Philadelphia  and  accepted  the  position  of  clerk,  with 
E.  B.  Garrigues  and  Robert  Shoemaker  &  Co.,  until  1859, 
he  then  took  charge  of  one  of  the  departments  of  instruction  in 
the  School  of  Pharmacy  for  medical  students,  which  was  conducted 
by  Prof.  Parrish,  in  an  upper  room  in  the  building  at  the  southwest 
corner  of  Eighth  and  Arch  Streets,  the  first  story  of  which  was  occu- 
pied as  his  drug  store.  In  1861,  Mr.  Maisch  was  called  to  the 
College  of  Pharmacy  of  the  City  of  New  York,  as  Professor  of 
Pharmacy  and  Materia  Medica,  and  for  the  time  in  which  he  was 
not  engaged  in  his  duties  at  the  College,  he  found  employment  at 
the  laboratory  of  Dr.  E.  R.  Squibb.  In  1863,  Prof.  Maisch  returned 
to  Philadelphia  to  organize  and  conduct  the  U.  S.  Army  Laboratory, 
proposed  by  Surgeon-General  Hammond,  and  of  this  he  was  Direc- 
tor until  the  close  of  the  war.  In  these  two  and  a  half  years  of  the 
existence  of  the  Laboratory  there  was  a  saving  of  more  than  $750,- 
000  to  the  Government.  After  the  close  of  the  war,  Prof.  Maisch 
opened  a  drug  store  at  1607  Ridge  Avenue,  which  he  conducted 
