^SS'^JST"}       Franklin  Muhlenberg  Apple. 
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cestry  on  both  sides.  He  was  born  at  Centerville,  Northampton 
County,  Pennsylvania,  on  February  14,  1870.  He  graduated  from 
the  Bangor  High  School,  Bangor.  Pa.,  in  1885,  and  immediately 
thereafter  entered  the  drug  business. 
Later,  he  came  to  Philadelphia  and  engaged  himself  with  his 
cousin,  the  late  Milton  S.  Apple,  in  whose  pharmacy  he  remained 
during  his  college  course.  He  matriculated  at  the  Philadelphia  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy  in  1888,  and  graduated  from  this  institution  in 
1890.  He  was  awarded  the  Alumni  Association  Prize  Certificate 
for  the  highest  percentage  shown  by  his  class  in  ihe  recognition  of 
specimens ;  and  this  award  carried  with  it  the  additional  honor  of 
being  the  highest  mark  attained  to  that  time  in  the  competition  for 
this  prize. 
As  a  student,  he  was  eager  to  learn  and  anxious  to  apply.  His 
thesis,  "  Glycerita,"  was  selected  by  him  as  a  means  to  apply  and 
profit  by  the  instruction  which  he  had  received.  The  writer  first 
met  him  as  a  neighbor  on  the  benches  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy,  and  then  appraised  him  as  a  youth  of  steadfast  purpose 
and  of  sterling  qualities  ;  and  an  acquaintance  of  over  thirty  years 
has  only  served  to  strengthen  that  opinion. 
In  the  autumn  of  1890  he  was  engaged  by  Professor  S.  P.  Sadt- 
ler  as  assistant  in  the  Chemical  Laboratory  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  here  he  continued  until  the  following  spring, 
when  he  purchased  a  drug  store  at  Seventeenth  and  York  Streets, 
this  city. 
In  1894  he  married  Mary  E.  Hess,  of  Centerville,  Pa.,  and  her 
practical  ability  has  always  been  a  great  help  to  him.  His  conscien- 
tious efforts  as  a  pharmacist  were  soon  rewarded,  for  he  rapidlv 
built  a  substantial  business,  and  soon  acquired  a  second  store. 
But  his  strength  was  not  equal  to  the  burden  which  he  had  as- 
sumed and  because  of  ill  health  he  decided  to  dispose  of  his  stores 
and  try  another  occupation;  accordingly  he  sold  his  business  in  1899. 
For  somewhat  over  a  year  following  this  change,  he  was  a  repre- 
sentative of  the  Horlick  Company  in  Philadelphia,  and  during  this 
time  he  was  studying  the  relations  between  physicians  and  pharma- 
cists ;  all  the  while  gathering  much  information  during  his  visits  to 
the  medical  practitioners.  This  experience  led  him  to  give  much 
careful  thought  to  the  matter  of  refilling  prescriptions.  But  his 
problems  were  too  intimately  connected  with  the  actual  practice  of 
pharmacy  to  be  perfected  outside  of  it.  and  they  brought  him  back 
