Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  \ 
November,  1896.  J 
Prof.  George  F.  H.  Markoe. 
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PROFESSOR  GEORGE  F.  H.  MARKOE. 
By  Wit.bur  h.  Scovii.i.E. 
Perhaps  the  future  generation  will  feel  more  eager  to  honor  the 
memory  of  the  pioneers  in  American  pharmaceutical  education  than 
the  present,  and,  if  so,  a  name  which  is 
certain  to  increase  in  lustre  is  that  which 
stands  at  the  head  of  this  article ;  for 
to  none  do  the  pharmacists,  particularly 
of  New  England,  owe  more  for  pres- 
ent opportunities  than  to  him,  who  has 
been  well  called  the  Father  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts College  of  Pharmacy. 
Born  in  Valparaiso,  Chili,  S.  A.,  on 
January  10,  1840,  his  early  childhood 
was  spent  in  that  country,  until,  at  the 
age  of  ten,  he  was  sent  to  dwell  with 
his  grandparents  in  Salem,  Mass.,  where 
he  enjoved  the  advantages  of  the  public 
PROF.  G.   F.  H.  MARKOE. 
Here  he  made  an  excellent  record  for  scholarship  and  proved  his 
abilities  for  study;  but  his  school  opportunities  were  short, and, after 
graduating  from  the  grammar  school,  he  began  his  pharmaceutical 
career  in  the  store  of  Mr.  James  Emerton.  Again  his  studious 
nature  showed  itself  in  a  persistent  following  of  the  course  of  study 
outlined  in  a  syllabus  of  a  course  of  study  by  Prof.  Wm.  Procter,  in 
the  Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  of 
1858.  He  also  took  up  the  study  of  botany  and  became  well 
acquainted  with  the  flora  of  his  neighborhood.  His  enthusiasm  for 
this  study  afterward  brought  him  into  close  friendship  with  the  late 
Professor  Asa  Gray,  of  Harvard. 
In  1 86 1  he  came  to  Boston  and  entered  the  employ  of  Mr.  Charles 
T.  Carney,  a  pharmacist  and  chemist  of  exceptional  ability.  Here 
his  studies  were  continued  under  wise  guidance,  and  he  became 
thoroughly  familiar  with  his  Mohr  and  Redwood's  "  Pharmacy,"  and 
Morfit's  "  Chemical  Manipulations,"  which  were  his  favorite  books. 
Mr.  Carney  did  considerable  chemical  manufacturing,  and  the 
apprentice  had  abundant  opportunity  to  put  into  practice  the  prin- 
ciples which  he  learned  in  his  studies. 
