THE  AMERICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY. 
OCTOBER,  1890. 
MEMOIR  OF  SAMUEL  S.  BUNTING. 
Samuel  S.  Bunting,  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy  and  of  its  Board  of  Trustees,  deceased  on  the 
15th  of  August,  1890,  in  the  63d  year  of  his  age.  He  was  born 
on  the  23d  of  April,  1828,  at  No.  913  Spruce  Street,  in  this  city. 
His  family  were  among  the  early  Quaker  settlers  of  Pennsylvania, 
who,  since  their  arrival  from  England,  have  been  residents  and  land- 
owners for  several  generations  near  Darby,  in  Delaware  County. 
His  father,  Josiah  Bunting,  was  engaged  in  the  lumber  business, 
at  the  southeast  Corner  of  Eighth  and  Vine  Streets,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Bunting  &  Watson;  his  junior  partner  was  at  one 
time  Mayor  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  His  mother,  Sarah  Sellers, 
was  a  descendant  of  the  Delaware  County  family  of  that  name  ; 
her  father  was  one  of  the  early  promoters  of  the  industry  of 
wire  manufacturing  in  this  city. 
When  Samuel  was  quite  a  child,  his  father  retired  from  the  lum- 
ber business,  and  removed  to  the  old  family  home  at  Darby,  where 
Samuel  resided  until  he  came  to  Philadelphia,  in  1845,  at  the  age 
of  17  years,  as  an  apprentice  to  the  drug  and  apothecary  business, 
with  Joseph  C.  Turnpenny,  at  the  northeast  corner  of  Tenth  and 
Spruce  Streets. 
He  received  an  elementary  education  at  Friends'  Monthly  Meet- 
ing School,  at  Darby,  supplemented  by  a  course  of  lectures  on 
chemistry  and  astronomy  given  by  John  Jackson,  an  able  teacher  in 
charge  of  the  Sharon  Academy  for  girls,  in  Darby.  It  does  not 
appear  that  he  manifested  any  particular  disposition  toward  the 
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