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James  Michenor  Good. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July,  1919. 
of  the  St.  Louis  Board  of  Pharmacy  which  was  created  by  city 
ordinance  and  in  operation  for  a  few  years  previous  to  the  passage 
of  the  state  law  in  1879. 
In  local  drug  circles,  Professor  Good  participated  as  soon  as  he 
located  in  St.  Louis,  in  July,  1868.  He  filled  offices  in  the  successive 
retail  associations  that  were  active  at  one  time  or  another  during 
his  fifty-one  years  in  the  city.  He  was  president  of  the  Cinchona 
Club  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
Although  known  as  a  retailer,  a  teacher,  a  citizen,  a  husband  and 
a  father,  it  was  as  professor  of  theoretical  pharmacy  in  the  St.  Louis 
College  of  Pharmacy  that  he  became  familiar  to  the  greatest  num- 
ber of  druggists  of  the  Mississippi  Valley.  He  began  in  the  school 
as  vice-president  in  1873,  being  elected  to  the  faculty  when  Pro- 
fessor Hubert  Primm  retired  in  1875.  He  gave  up  teaching  in  1916 
and  became  emeritus  professor.  It  was  in  1880  that  he  was  elected 
dean,  continuing  the  work  until  1904.  Professor  Good  started  life 
as  a  farmer  boy  and  he  received  his  early  education  in  the  local 
schools  of  eastern  Pennsylvania.  Going  to  Philadelphia  in  1865,  he 
taught  for  a  time  in  the  Friends'  School.  He  attended  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy,  completing  the  junior  course  in  1867- 
1868.  He  often  referred  to  his  being  a  member  of  private  classes 
under  Professor  Parrish.  His  instructions  in  pharmacy  took  the 
pedagogic  form.  He  was  quite  as  particular  about  having  students 
dot  the  "  i "  and  cross  the  "  t "  as  he  was  in  bringing  the  pupils  up 
to  the  standard  on  purely  pharmaceutical  information. 
During  the  half  century  in  which  he  was  active  in  the  pharma- 
ceutical world,  he  was  always  held  in  high  esteem.  The  Missouri 
Medical  College  conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  doctor  of  medicine. 
He  received  from  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  the  degree 
of  master  of  pharmacy  at  the  same  time  as  George  M.  Beringer, 
whom  he  thereafter  addressed  at  "  Brother  George."  He  felt  par- 
ticularly dear  and  near  to  several  men  prominent  in  the  pharma- 
ceutical activities,  located  in  different  sections  of  the  country.  He 
considered  it  a  privilege  to  have  been  intimately  acquainted  with 
men  along  the  line  from  the  days  of  Markoe,  Parrish,  Maisch,  Bed- 
ford, Ebert,  Hallberg  and  Remington.  He  was  far  from  a  hero 
worshiper,  but  glad  to  recognize  and  give  full  credit  to  the  worth  of 
such  men. 
It  was  in  Philadelphia  in  1865  that  James  M.  Good  apprenticed 
to  the  firm  of  B.  N.  Bethal  &  Co.    He  always  considered  himself  a 
