THE  AMERICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY. 
JULY,  1883, 
MEMOIR  OF  DANIEL  B.  SMITH. 
Bead  at  a  Meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy^  June  25,  1883. 
In  the  endeavor  to  comply  with  the  request  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  this  College,  to  furnish  a  memoir  of  the  life  of  one  who 
was  connected  with  this  Institution  from  its  inception,  I  am  aware  of 
the  difficulty  of  calling  into  review  the  events  of  a  life  extending  over 
nearly  a  century. 
In  a  life  marked  by  more  than  usual  activity  in  the  interest  taken 
in  the  progress  of  scientific  and  social  development,  and  yet  unosten- 
tatious and  quiet,  we  are  reminded  of  a  living  stream  flowing  quietly 
along  its  course,  germinating  and  nourishing  growths  of  utility  and 
beneficence,  until  it  is  lost  in  the  gathering  together  of  the  waters. 
The  ancestors  of  Daniel  B.  Smith  were  intimately  associated  with  the 
early  settlement  of  Burlington  County,  N.  J.  Daniel  B.  Smith,  the 
son  of  Benjamin  and  Deborah  Morris  Smith,  was  born  in  the  City  of 
Philadelphia,  Seventh  month,  14th,  1792. 
His  father  died  when  he  was  about  one  year  old,  and  his  mother 
removed  to  Burlington,  N.  J.,  her  native  place,  where  there  was  a 
large  circle  of  intelligent  relatives  and  friends.  Passing  through  the 
periods  of  childhood  and  youth  in  the  cultivated  society  which  was  a 
noted  feature  of  ^Hhe  quiet,  respectable  and  ancient  City  of  Burlmg- 
ton,''  there  was  developed  and  cultivated  in  his  mind  those  literary 
and  scientific  tastes  which  gave  a  direction  and  aim  to  his  after  life. 
His  early  education  was  at  the  school  of  John  Griscom,  who  in 
1794,  decided  after  much  deliberation  to  take  the  school  which  was 
under  the  charge  of  the  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends. 
The  school  which  opened  with  three  scholars,  in  three  months 
increased  to  thirty-five,  and  soon  attracted  the  attention  of  parents  in 
Philadelphia,  New  York,  and  some  parts  of  New  England,  whose 
children  were  sent  to  the  school  and  were  received  as  boarders  in 
private  families  in  the  town. 
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