90 
Centenary  of  Pharmaceutical  Education. 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
(  February,  1921. 
was  continuously  re-elected  to  represent  the  City  of  Philadelphia 
for  fifteen  years.  He  was  an  earnest  advocate  of  internal  com- 
munications as  the  means  of  increasing  the  prosperity  of  his  native 
city.  William  Lehman  never  married,  he  was  happy  in  his  devotion 
to  the  public  causes  which  he  had  so  much  at  heart,  and  gained  a 
host  of  friends  and  supporters  for  these  projects  and  was  one  of 
the  most  useful  and  eminent  public  men  of  his  day.  He  died  at 
Harrisburg  on  the  twenty-ninth  day  of  March,  1829,  in  the  fiftieth 
year  of  his  age.  He  left  a  bequest  of  $10,000  to  the  Athenaeum  of 
Philadelphia  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  a  suitable  building,  and 
this  became  the  nucleus  of  the  building  fund  through  which  they 
acquired  their  new  hall,  opened  on  October  18,  1847. 
Daniel  B.  Smith.  No  history  of  American  pharmacy  would 
be  complete  without  due  reference  and  credit  being  given  to  this 
most  learned  and  public-spirited  pharmacist  of  his  day,  who  was 
remarkable  for  the  versatility 
of  his  attainments.  While 
characterized  by  a  quiet  and 
unostenstatious  manner,  he 
was,  nevertheless,  a  happy 
combination  of  business  man, 
philanthropist,  literary  and 
scientific  scholar,  teacher,  au- 
thor and  editor.  In  all  of 
these  activities  he  established 
an  enviable  reputation,  and 
wTon  the  admiration  of  his 
contemporaries. 
The  ancestors  of  Daniel  B. 
Smith  were  among  those  who 
established  the  early  settle- 
ments in  Burlington  County, 
N.  J.  He  was  the  son  of 
Benjamin  and  Deborah  (Mor- 
ris) Smith,  and  he  was  born 
in  Philadelphia  in  1792.  His 
father  died  when  he  was  but 
one  year  old,  and  his  mother  removed  to  Burlington,  N.  J. 
His  early  education  was  acquired  at  the  school  of  John  Gris- 
com,  a  highly  esteemed  educator  who  maintained  a  "Friends'  school" 
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DANIEL  B.  SMITH 
