Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  \ 
January,  19 18.  ' 
Charles  Holzhauer. 
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"  Charles  Holzhauer,  who  died  in  this  city  last  week,  one  day  heard  some 
one  make  a  sneering  remark  about  Sunday-schools.  He  could  not  keep  silence. 
'  Let  me  tell  you,'  he  said,  '  that  all  the  success  I  have  had  I  owe  to  a  Sunday- 
school.  I  was  just  a  little  German  boy  living  on  'the  hill'  with  apparently  a 
poor  future  before  me.  I  was  taken  into  the  school  of  the  old  Central  Presby- 
terian Church,  and  to  the  influences  which  there  surrounded  me  and  the  valu- 
able friendships  which  I  then  gained  I  attribute  such  position  as  I  have  now.' 
He  was  himself  a  superintendent  of  Sunday-schools  for  several  years.  Every 
Newarker  knows  that  he  was  also  a  successful  business  man  and  a  respected 
citizen." 
In  1874  Mr.  Holzhauer  joined  the  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical 
Association.  He  was  its  president  in  1881.  Ever  a  faithful  at- 
tendant, never  missing  a  meeting  if  he  was  in  the  country,  he  will  be 
missed  here  more  than  anywhere  else.  He  was  a  good  listener, 
with  a  judicial  mind.  When  a  lull  came  in  the  discussions  (which 
were  often  warm  and  full  of  fire)  he  would  get  up,  and,  in  a  few 
quiet  words,  say  something  that  carried  so  much  force  that  he 
usually  had  the  last  word. 
One  of  the  old  guard,  in  a  letter  since  his  death,  said:  "When 
I  was  active  in  Association  work  I  always  felt  that  any  measure  that 
I  proposed,  if  backed  by  Holzhauer,  was  proper,  worthy  and  prom- 
ised success.    He  was  a  grand,  good  man." 
Another  said :  "  What  will  the  New  Jersey  Association  do  with- 
out Holzhauer  ?  " 
The  original  Pharmacy  Law  for  New  Jersey  became  operative 
in  1877;  Governor  Bedle  named  Charles  Holzhauer  as  one  of  the 
five  members  to  carry  out  its  provisions.  James  R.  Mercein,  of 
Jersey  City,  was  president  of  the  first  board ;  three  succeeding  gov- 
ernors reappointed  Charles  Holzhauer  in  1880,  1883  and  1886,  and 
he  served  as  president  from  1880  to  1890,  when  he  retired. 
Mr.  Holzhauer  entered  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy  in 
1871  and  was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1873.  He  joined  the  Col- 
lege November  3,  1881,  and  became  a  life  member  in  1882.  He 
was  a  vice-president  in  1891.  He  became  a  trustee  in  1892,  serving 
as  such  for  five  years  until  1897. 
Mr.  Holzhauer  joined  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
in  1873,  was  first  vice-president  in  1905,  local  secretary  in  1916, 
chairman  of  the  Section  on  Historical  Pharmacy  191 5  and  1916. 
Was  elected  president  and  installed  at  Indianapolis,  191 7. 
The  New  York  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  organized  in 
1879.    Mr.  Holzhauer  attended  their  meeting  in  1883.    He  was 
