62  The  Story  of  a  Drug  Store.  {A£&^?j^- 
macist  honored,  respected,  and  successful,  was  called  upon,  with  his 
fellow  apprentice,  Frederick  Brown,  to  take  almost  the  entire  charge 
of  the  business.  Seldom  has  a  drug  store  been  favored  with  such  a 
class  of  young  men  as  apprentices.  I  call  to  mind  the  names  of 
Dillwyn  Parrish,  after  at  Eighth  and  Arch,  and  President  of  the 
College  of  Pharmacy;  Frederick  Brown,  at  Fifth  and  Chestnut; 
Samuel  P.  Griffith,  at  Eighth  and  Chestnut,  who  as  a  great  volunteer 
fireman  lost  his  life ;  Joseph  Morris,  afterward  in  a  large  wholesale 
business  at  Louisville,  Ky. ;  Isaac  P.  Morris,  Mordecai  Gordon* 
and  Paschall  Morris. 
The  firm  of  Ellis  &  Morris  did  not  last  over  five  years.  Isaac  P. 
Morris  then  had  an  opportunity  of  engaging  in  the  Morris  family 
occupation,  the  iron  industry,  from  which  in  a  few  years  came  the 
great  I.  P.  Morris  Works,  at  Richmond,  now  part  of  Cramp's 
immense  yards  and  shops. 
In  1832  Charles  Ellis  associated  with  him  his  nephew,  William 
Ellis,  who  had  been  an  apprentice  of  Ellis  &  Morris,  and  like  my 
father,  was  born  at  Muncy,  Pa.  The  name  of  the  firm  was  Charles 
Ellis  &  Co. 
In  this  year,  1832,  there  came  along  a  Yankee,  named  Holmes, 
who  placed  granite  fronts  on  Nos.  56  and  58  Chestnut  Street,  which 
at  that  time  was  thought  something  very  fine.  Some  ol  Holmes'  fronts 
can  still  (1903)  be  seen  at  Nos.  200  and  204  Chestnut  Street ;  and 
this  is  what  is  said  in  Caspar  Souder's  Series  on  Chestnut  Street, 
published  in  1 858  :  "  No.  214  (old  56)  was  a  handsome  Pictou  stone- 
fronted  building,  resting  on  iron  columns  at  the  first  story.  There 
is  much  of  interest  attached  to  this  spot.  The  first  building  occu- 
pying this  site  was  as  I  have  described  it,  and  was  demolished  in 
1832;  then  the  first  granite  front  ever  put  up  in  Philadelphia  was 
erected  there.  This  in  turn  became  old-fashioned  and  the  present 
handsome  iron  building  supplanted  it  in  1857.  Upon  this  spot  stood 
the  famous  Marshall  drug  store,  which  for  nearly  a  century  had 
furnished  half 4 the  town  with  paregoric." 
A  large  four-story  brick  warehouse  had  been  erected  on  the  rear 
street  (then  Carter's  Alley,  now  Ionic  Street),  and  some  of  the 
garden  was  preserved  until  about  1 840,  when  the  front  and  rear 
buildings  were  connected,  first  on  the  main  floor  only,  but  subse- 
quently on  all  the  floors. 
Speaking  ot  Charles  Ellis  at  the  time  of  his  commencement  in 
