260  An  Historic  Drug  Store.  {^'j^iqisT' 
by  Daniel  B.  Smith,  it  was  conducted,  later,  by  Smith  &  Hodgson, 
and,  still  later,  by  Bullock  &  Crenshaw. 
Daniel  B.  Smith  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1792,  and  in  1819 
opened  a  drug  store  on  his  individual  account  at  the  northeast  corner 
of  Sixth  and  Arch  Streets.  In  1828,  William  Hodgson,  Jr.,  became 
associated  with  him  in  the  business,  under  the  firm  name  of  Smith  & 
Hodgson. 
Daniel  B.  Smith  was  not  only  famous  as  a  pharmacist  but  also 
as  a  leading  citizen  of  Philadelphia.  He  was  the  first  secretary  of 
the  College  of  Apothecaries  of  1821,  which  became,  in  1822,  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  He  was  the  first  chairman  of 
the  Committee  on  Publication  of  the  American  Journal  of  Phar- 
macy, and  served  the  College  most  efficiently  for  many  years  in 
various  official  capacities.  He  was  president  of  the  College  for 
twenty-five  years  (1829-54). 
William  Hodgson,  Jr.,  of  the  firm  of  Smith  &  Hodgson,  was 
a  most  accomplished  druggist.  He  received  his  pharmaceutical  edu- 
cation in  the  store  of  John  Bell  &  Co.,  of  London,  one  of  the  most 
celebrated  establishments  of  that  metropolis.  He  was  an  excellent 
chemist  and  a  skilled  manipulator. 
The  store  of  Smith  &  Hodgson  at  this  period  was  the  only  place 
in  Philadelphia  where  chemicals  and  chemical  apparatus  especially 
adapted  for  schools  and  laboratories  could  be  obtained,,  the  articles 
being  mostly  imported  direct  from  Europe,  some  few  of  the  chemicals 
being  made  in  their  own  laboratory. 
In  1844  Charles  Bullock  became  an  apprentice  of  Smith  &  Hodg- 
son, and  in  1847  graduated  from  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy. He  served  the  College  for  many  years  as  trustee,  secretary, 
vice-president,  and  president.  Later,  Edmund  A.  Crenshaw,  who 
was  also  a  graduate  of  the  College,  was  engaged  with  the  same  firm, 
and  in  1849  these  two  succeeded  to  the  business  of  Smith  &  Hodgson. 
The  attention  given  to  chemistry  in  its  application  to  the  arts  in- 
creased so  rapidly  with  the  development  of  the  mining  and  manu- 
'facturing  industries*of  the  country  that  the  new  firm  found  that  this 
branch  of  the  business  required  special  attention.  Charles  Bullock 
visited  Europe  in  185 1,  obtained  much  valuable  information,  and 
formed  important  foreign  business  connections  in  England  and  on 
the  Continent,  and  the  firm  soon  became  famous  for  its  large  and 
valuable  stock  of  imported  chemicals  and  chemical  apparatus.  In 
