86 
Centenary  of  Pharmaceutical  Education. 
Two  weeks  later  the  first  stated  meeting  was  held,  and  the  fol- 
lowing officers  were  elected : 
President :  Charles  Marshall. 
Vice-Presidents :  William  Lehman,  Stephen  Xorth. 
Treasurer:  William  Heyl. 
Secretary :  Daniel  B.  Smith. 
The  history  of  pharmaceutical  education  and  of  pharmaceutical 
progress  in  the  Western  Hemisphere  dates  from  these  meetings  held 
in  Carpenters'  Hall  in  February  and  March,  1821.  Thus  was  estab- 
lished the  first  College  of  Pharmacy  in  America,  the  pioneer  whose 
precepts  and  examples  have  been  closely  followed  by  many  schools  of 
pharmacy  subsequently  instituted. 
Sacred  are  the  memories  associated  with  Carpenters'  Hall.  It 
holds  second  place  only  to  Independence  Hall  as  a  place  of  meeting  in 
which  transpired  events  of  the  utmost  importance  in  shaping  the 
destiny  of  this  nation.  It  was  erected  in  1770,  by  the  Association  of 
Master  Carpenters  of  Philadelphia — "The  Carpenters  Company." 
Within  its  halls  the  first  Continental  Congress  convened  on  September 
5,  1774,  and  fifty-five  men  picked  as  representatives  of  the  Colonies 
met  and  were  thrilled  by  the  eloquence  of  Patrick  B  enry,  and  guided 
in  their  deliberations  and  the  framing  of  the  Declaration  of  Rights, 
by  such  counsellors' as  Jefferson,  Adams  and  Washington. 
It  is  indeed  a  happy  coincidence  that  pharmaceutical  education  in 
America  had  its  birthplace  in  such  a  hallowed  spot  and,  as  phar- 
macists, in  addition  to  our  patriotic  reverence  for  the  historical 
building  and  its  associations,  we  can  with  just  pride  look  upon  the 
meetings  of  the  druggists  and  apothecaries  in  Philadelphia,  one 
hundred  years  ago,  as  the  declaration  of  rights  of  pharmacy  and 
its  professional  independence. 
Board  of  Trustees  : 
Samuel  P.  Wetherill, 
Dr.  Samuel  Jackson, 
Charles  Marshall,  Jr., 
Warder  Morris, 
Peter  Williamson, 
Daniel  Thatcher, 
Samuel  Biddle, 
Thomas  M'Clintock, 
Frederick  Brown, 
Thomas  Wiltberger. 
Daniel  Elliott, 
Charles  Allen, 
Henry  M.  Zollickoffer, 
Jeremiah  Morris, 
Henry  Troth, 
Peter  Lehman, 
