THE  AMERICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY 
NOVEMBER,  i8g8. 
HENRY  TRIMBLE. 
The  ranks  of  American  pharmacy  have  again  suffered  a  loss,  and 
one  which,  from  the  promise  held  out  in  a  relatively  short  career, 
we  cannot  but  term  a  severe  one.  Henry  Trimble,  for  four  years 
past  the  editor  of  this  Journal,  has  passed  from  our  midst  at  the 
age  of  forty-five,  having  lived  long  enough  to  show  that  he  could  do 
good  lasting  work  for  his  chosen  profession,  although  he  could  not 
be  said  to  have  reached  the  zenith  of  his  powers.  The  busy  world 
makes  small  note  of  the  death  of  one  man,  even  when  his  sphere  of 
activity  has  been  a  wide  one,  and  the  dropping  from  the  ranks 
of  a  quiet  scientific  teacher  and  worker  may  not  make  much  stir 
with  the  great  public,  may  in  fact  pass  almost  unnoticed,  but  there 
are  circles  that  will  feel  in  his  death  a  sense  of  personal  loss.  His 
power  of  devoted  and  loyal  friendship  to  those  to  whom  he  once 
had  given  his  confidence,  made  him  a  companion  who  will  be  missed 
sadly  and  not  readily  forgotten. 
The  subject  of  this  memoir  was  born  near  Chester,  Pa.,  on  May 
22,  1853,  the  son  of  Stephen  M.  Trimble,  a  member  of  the  Society 
of  Friends.  He  was  brought  up  upon  a  farm,  going  to  school  in 
winter  and  working  during  the  summer.  His  earlier  education  was 
obtained  at  the  well-known  Westtown  Boarding  School  in  Chester 
County,  and  at  the  age  of  nineteen  he  was  apprenticed  to  learn  the 
drug  and  apothecary  business. 
Two  years  later,  in  1874,  he  entered  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy,  the  institution  in  which  most  of  his  subsequent  active 
career  was  to  be  cast,  and  was  graduated  from  the  same  in  1876. 
Desiring  to  supplement  his  course  here  by  a  fuller  training  he  then 
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