THE  AMEEICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY 

FEBRUARY,  1918 

PROFESSOR  JOSEPH  PRICE  REMINGTON. 
By  Charles  H.  La  Wall,  Ph.M. 
"He  who  influences  the  thought  of  his  time  influences  the 
thought  of  all  the  time  that  follows.  And  he  has  made  his  impress 
upon  eternity." 
Professor  Joseph  Price  Remington  is  dead.  On  January  I, 
1918,  Atropos  severed  the  thread  of  a  life  which  has  meant  much 
to  pharmacy.  Clothos'  distaff  bore  the  unsullied  skein  which 
Lachesis  had  measured  for  more  than  seventy  years. 
It  is  difficult,  indeed,  to  correctly  estimate  the  value  of  a  man's 
services  to  the  world  before  time  has  developed  the  true  perspective, 
but  there  will  be  none  to  challenge  the  statement  that  for  a  period 
of  at  least  twenty-five  years,  Professor  Joseph  P.  Remington  was 
the  foremost  figure  in  American  pharmacy.  Genial  and  eloquent, 
a  keen  student  of  human  nature,  a  lover  of  the  beautiful  in  art, 
music  and  literature,  possessed  of  a  fund  of  scientific  knowledge  of 
unusually  broad  scope,  and  with  it  all  a  consciousness  of  power 
that  made  him  an  acknowledged  leader  among  men — these  are  some 
of  the  qualities  that  were  combined  in  him  to  make  a  great  teacher, 
a  capable  executive  and  a  Christian  gentleman,  clean-minded  and 
clean-hearted. 
He  was  the  descendant  of  early  Philadelphia  Quaker  stock,  his 
ancestors  for  three  generations  having  been  residents  of  that  city 
and  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  His  father  was  Dr.  Isaac 
Remington,  a  well-known  Philadelphia  physician.  His  mother  was 
the  daughter  of  John  Hart,  who  was  a  descendant  of  Townsend 
Speakman,  an  apothecary  in  Philadelphia  early  in  the  eighteenth 
century,  and  the  sign  from  this  old  store  was  given  a  prominent 
place  in  Professor  Remington's  private  office  at  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy. 
