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William  Mclntyre. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
May,  1913. 
WILLIAM  McINTYRE,  Ph.G.  ;  Ph.M.1 
William  Mclntyre  was  born  in  1843  m  the  North  of  Ireland. 
He  was  brought  to  this  country  by  his  parents  when  he  was  a  small 
boy.  His  family  settled  in  the  district  of  Kensington,  the  north- 
eastern section  of  Philadelphia.  Here  he  lived  with  the  family 
and  attended  the  public  schools,  passing  the  various  grades  and 
entering  the  High  School  which  he  attended  faithfully  for  three 
years.  At  the  end  of  this  time  he  entered  the  pharmacy  of  John 
Bley  to  begin  his  career  as  a  pharmacist.  Mr.  Bley  had  a  system 
of  testing  the  honesty  of  the  boys  he  took  into  his  store,  but  it  did 
not  take  him  long  to  find  out  that  William  Mclntyre  was  above  and 
beyond  any  temptation  to  do  a  dishonest  act. 
In  1 861  he  matriculated  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
This  was  during  the  Civil  War  and  with  a  desire  to  serve  his 
country,  he  enlisted  in  a  Pennsylvania  Regiment,  but,  being  a 
minor,  he  was  prevented  from  carrying  out  his  patriotic  intentions 
by  the  opposition  of  his  father,  who  thought  that  he  was  entirely 
too  young.  He  graduated  from  the  College  in  1863.  The  class 
at  that  time  was  very  small,  consisting  of  only  twenty-two  members. 
After  his  graduation,  he  entered  business  on  his  own  account  on 
Frankford  Avenue.  He  was  filled  with  the  ideals  of  the  professors 
at  the  College — Procter,  Bridges,  Parrish,  and  Maisch — and  he 
carried  out  their  principles  in  his  daily  work.  Nothing  that  would 
cater  to  vice  and  immorality  could  be  purchased  in  his  store. 
He  inherited  in  large  measure  the  character  and  virility  which 
distinguished  the  sterling  Scotch-Irish  people  who  have  given  so 
many  able  men  and  women  to  the  world. 
In  1867  he  joined  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
which  met  in  New  York  City  that  year ;  he  was  a  life  member  of 
this  Organization  and  contributed  many  valuable  papers  and  re- 
ports. In  1 88 1  he  joined  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion and  soon  became  well-known  and  greatly  appreciated  by  all 
of  its  members  and  in  1893  he  was  elected  president  of  this  body. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
and  became  one  of  the  Board  of  Trustees.  In  the  pharmaceutical 
meetings  of  the  College  he  took  an  active  part  and  was  its  Secretary 
1Read  at  Annual  Meeting  of  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  March 
31,  1913. 
