AmMa°y,ri9Pofrm'}  William  J.  Jenks.  203 
opportunities  afforded,  and  studiously  and  earnestly  applied  himself 
to  the  mastering  of  all  details,  and  his  thorough  training  in  the 
business  and  duties  of  the  pharmacist  was  ever  afterward  apparent 
to  his  friends  and  associates. 
He  attended  his  first  course  of  lectures  at  the  Philadelphia  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy  during  the  winter  of  1839-1840,  and  the  second 
in  1841-1842.  The  lectures  in  materia  medica  and  botany  were 
delivered  by  Dr.  Joseph  Carson,  and  those  in  chemistry,  in  the  first 
course,  by  Dr.  Franklin  Bache,  and  in  the  second  by  Dr.  William 
R.  Fisher,  who  succeeded  Dr.  Bache  who  had  resigned  on  account 
of  his  election  as  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the  Jefferson  Medical 
College.  In  the  year  intervening  between  his  attendance  at  college 
he  selected  a  subject  for  his  thesis  and  performed  the  experiments 
recorded  in  his  inaugural  essay  on  "  Juniperus  Virginiana,"  which 
was  published  in  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  1842,  folio 
230. 
At  that  time  the  college  occupied  a  property  on  Zane  Street  (now 
Filbert  Street),  east  of  Seventh  Street,  and  the  instruction  consisted 
of  lectures  and  such  experiments  as  could  be  demonstrated  on  the 
lecture  table.  The  students  who  were  applicants  for  the  degree  and 
were  coming  up  for  examination  at  the  end  of  the  course,  were  re- 
quested to  occupy  the  front  seats,  and  the  professor  would  devote 
about  fifteen  minutes  before  commencing  his  lecture  in  quizzing 
these  on  the  instruction  previously  given.  As  there  were  no  regular 
quizz  masters  the  students  were  generally  paired  and  quizzed  each 
other. 
William  J.  Jenks  graduated  in  the  spring  of  1842.  Among  his 
classmates  were  Edward  Parrish,  who  later  became  Professor  of 
Pharmacy  in  the  college,  and  Laurence  Turnbull,  who  studied  medi- 
cine and  gained  a  reputation  as  a  specialist  in  otology. 
After  graduating  from  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  Mr. 
Jenks  continued  with  Smith  &  Hodgson  as  head  clerk  for  about  two 
years.  It  had  been  his  intention  to  take  up  the  study  of  medicine, 
but  an  intimate  friend,  Charles  S.  Ogden,  desiring  to  engage  in  the 
wholesale  drug  business,  a  partnership  under  the  firm  name  of  Jenks 
&  Ogden  was  formed  in  January,  1845,  and  the  new  firm  located  at 
160  North  Third  Street. 
Here  a  wholesale  and  retail  drug  business  was  successfully  carried 
on  for  a  number  of  years.    The  affability,  genial  disposition  and 
