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Memoir  of  Daniel  B.  Smith. 
(  Am,  Jour.  Pharm. 
t      July,  1883. 
its  reports,  for  six  years  its  Secretary ,  aucl  the  original  suggestor  of  the 
necessity  of  a  separate  institution  for  juvenile  convicts,  was  appropri- 
ately delegated  by  his  associates  to  present  the  ^matter  directly  to  his 
fellow-citizens  by  an  appeal  to  their  intelligence,  their  humanity,  and 
to  their  liberality."^  The  House  of  Refuge  in  New  York  was  opened 
on  the  1st  of  January,  1825. 
In  1834,  at  the  earnest  solicitation  of  the  Board  of  Managers  of 
Haverford  School  (now  Haverford  College),  he  accepted  the  chair  of 
Moral  Philosophy,  English  Literature,  and  Chemistry,  and  removed 
his  residence  to  Haverford. 
The  twelve  years  of  his  residence  at  Haverford  marked  a  quiet  but 
happy  period  of  his  life.  "  The  Principles  of  Chemistry,  prepared  for  the 
use  of  Schools,  Academies  and  Colleges,''  was  issued  by  him  while  here, 
as  a  text-book  for  his  class ;  the  volume  went  through  two  editions.  The 
courses  of  lectures  delivered  by  him  on  Ethics,  and  a  review  of  the 
lives  and  doctrines  of  some  of  the  early  members  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  were  literary  productions  of  great  merit.  His  comprehensive 
information,  his  literary  taste,  the  interest  taken  in  whatever  conduced 
to  the  happiness  of  the  pupils,  elevated  him  to  a  position  honored  and 
respected  by  the  student  and  is  referred  to  by  many  now  past  the 
meridian  of  life,  with  feelings  of  grateful  affection  for  his  memory. 
In  1846  he  resigned  his  position  at  Haverfood,  returned  to  Phila- 
delphia, and  gave  his  attention  to  the  business  at  Arch  and  Sixth 
streets. 
Pie  was  President  of  the  first  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceu- 
tical Association,  held  in  Philadelphia  in  1852,  and  was  made  an 
honorary  member  in  1856. 
The  business  at  Arch  and  Sixth  streets  had  been  gradually  expand- 
ing, necessitating  in  1846  the  erection  of  a  four-story  back  building, 
to  occupy  the  place  of  the  two- story  tenement  which  occupied  the  rear 
of  the  Arch  street  lot.  The  fourth  story  of  the  new  building  was 
used  as  a  laboratory. 
The  manufacturing  interest  developed  during  the  next  two  years  so 
extensively,  that  the  firm  concluded  to  dispose  of  their  drug  business 
and  devote  their  attention  to  the  new  laboratory  which  they  had 
established  on  Gray's  Ferry  Road.    On  the  first  of  January,  1849,  a 
^  Life  of  John  Griscom. 
