jily'iSr""}  Memoir  of  Daniel  B.  Smith.  341 
It  was  the  understanding  of  the  compilers  of  this  work  that  D.  B. 
Smith  should  be  associated  with  them  in  its  preparation.  He  con- 
tributed several  articles  to  the  first  edition,  but  his  removal  to  Plaver- 
ford  in  1834  removed  him  from  the  sphere  in  which  his  labor  in  that 
direction  could  be  made  available. 
"  In  a  volume  of  introductory  lectures  and  addresses  on  medical  subjects," 
by  the  late  Dr.  Geo.  B.  Wood  (1860),  the  following  tribute  is  paid  to  Daniel 
B.  Smith: 
"Justice  requires  that  some  allusion  should  here  be  made  to  the  services 
of  a  gentleman  to  whom  the  pharmacy  of  this  country  is  greatly  indebted. 
I  refer  to  Daniel  B.  Smith,  formerly  President  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy. 
"  Standing  among  the  first  apothecaries  of  his  time  in  literary  and  scien- 
titic  attainment,  peculiar  skill  in  his  art,  and  general  reputation,  he  entered 
zealously  into  the  movement  which  originated  and  sustained  the  College  of 
Pharmacy,  and  by  his  own  written  contributions,  the  encouragement 
which  he  extended  to  the  etForts  of  younger  men,  and  the  measures  set  on 
foot,  or  ardently  supported  by  him  for  the  improvement  in  various  ways  of 
the  profession  to  which  he  was  attached,  he  contributed,  I  think,  more 
than  any  other  one  individual  to  the  impetus  which  has  carried  the  phar- 
macy of  this  country  to  its  present  relatively  high  position. 
"  Should  this  notice  reach  him  in  his  retirement,  the  author  hopes  that  he 
w^ill  receive  it  kindly,  and  as  the  testimony  of  one  who  has  known  him  for 
more  than  forty  years,  has  always  esteemed  him  highly,  and  entertained  a 
grateful  sense  of  the  e&vly  aid  and  encouragemet  extended  by  him  to  his 
own  professional  labors." 
In  1824,  he  married  Esther  Morton,  daughter  of  John  Morton,  a 
merchant  of  this  city,  and  President  of  the  Bank  of  North  America 
from  1809  to  1822. 
In  the  fall  of  1828,  William  Hodgson,  Jr.,  was  associated  with  him 
in  business  at  the  northeast  corner  of  Arch  and  Sixth  streets.  On  his 
first  settling  in  Philadelphia  (1827),  William  Hodgson,  Jr.,  had  opened 
a  store  at  No.  270  (old  number)  Arch  street,  below^  Tenth  street,  on 
the  south  side. 
William  Hodgson,  Jr.,  was  one  of  the  most  accomplished  druggists 
of  his  time, — he  had  received  a  generous  education  in  England, — was 
brought  up  in  his  profession  in  one  of  the  most  celebrated  establish- 
ments in  London,  and  was  remarkable  for  accuracy,  neatness,  and 
desi)atch  in  all  his  work.  He  was  a  good  chemist  and  a  successful 
manipulator. 
Relieved  from  the  details  of  business  by  his  association  with  so  com- 
petent a  partner,  D.  B.  Smith  turned  to  the  pursuits  which  were  in 
