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Obituaries. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
April,  1903. 
Mr.  Perot  attended  the  lectures  at  the  College  of  Pharmacy,  and 
graduated  in  1849,  writing  his  inaugural  dissertation  on  chloroform, 
then  a  comparatively  new  drug  and  one  that  was  attracting  consid- 
erable attention. 
Mr.  Perot  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  in  1856,  and  in  1859  was  nominated  and  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  its  Board  of  Trustees,  in  which  capacity  he  served  uninter- 
ruptedly to  the  time  of  his  death.  For  more  than  twenty  years  he 
has  acted  as  chairman  of  the  Board. 
He  was  also  a  life  member  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation, joining  at  the  second  meeting  in  Philadelphia  in  1857. 
In  addition  to  these  associations,  that  were,  of  course,  more  or 
less  closely  connected  with  his  business  or  professional  training, 
Mr.  Perot  also  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  municipality  and  its  citi- 
zens. From  an  early  date  he  was  connected  with  a  number  of 
charitable  or  benevolent  institutions.  It  may  be  well  to  mention  a 
few  of  the  institutions  with  which  his  name  was  connected,  just  to 
show  the  catholicity  of  his  philanthropic  spirit. 
For  more  than  thirty-five  years  he  was  president  of  the  Woman's 
Medical  College  of  Pennsylvania,  the  oldest  institution  of  its  kind 
in  this  country  if  not  in  the  world. 
In  1 861  Mr.  Perot  was  elected  president  of  the  Mercantile  Library 
Company,  then  situated  at  Fifth  and  Library  Streets.  Under  his 
administration  this  institution  has  flourished  and  has  done  much  to 
spread  knowledge  and  learning  among  the  inhabitants  of  the  city. 
For  nearly  half  a  century  Mr.  Perot  was  the  treasurer  of  the 
Friends'  Charity  Fund  Association,  and  of  the  Northern  Soup 
Society.  In  addition  to  these  he  was  connected  with  the  Society  to 
Protect  Children  from  Cruelty,  the  Society  for  the  Prevention  of 
Cruelty  to  Animals,  and  the  Maternity  Hospital. 
Mr.  Perot  also  took  an  active  interest  in  all  attempts  to  improve 
local  government. 
During  its  existence,  he  was  a  member  of  the  celebrated  Com- 
mittee of  One  Hundred,  and  later  became  prominently  identified 
with  the  Citizens'  Municipal  Association. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Union  League  and  the  Society  of 
the  Sons  of  the  Revolution. 
In  1 870  Mr.  Perot  succeeded  to  his  father's  business,  the  Francis 
