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Founding  of  Phila.  College  of  Pharmacy. 
consulting  the  apothecaries  themselves,  and  as  tradition  has  it,  the 
two  individuals  directly  responsible  for  the  protest  which  was  voiced 
at  the  meeting  held  in  Carpenters'  Hall,  on  the  day  whose  cen- 
tennial we  are  celebrating,  were  Peter  Lehman  and  Henry  Troth, 
the  former  a  retailer,  the  latter  a  wholesale  druggist  of  prominence 
at  that  time. 
On  February  23,'  only  two  days  after  the  publication  of  the 
resolutions  adopted  by  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  Board  of 
Trustees,  the  initial  meeting  of  the  Founders  of  this  College  was 
held.  We  do  not  know  the  complete  list  of  those  in  attendance,  but 
we  know  that  Stephen  North  was  made  Chairman,  and  Peter  Wil- 
liamson, Secretary,  and  resolutions  were  prepared  and  offered,  and 
after  some  debate  were  adopted  and  referred  to  a  committee,  who 
were  given  power  to  call  a  subsequent  meeting  "at  such  time  and 
place  as  they  deem  proper." 
This  special  committee  was  noteworthy  for  the  character  and 
standing  of  its  members.    The  names  are  as  follows : 
Samuel  Jackson,  M.D.        40  N.  Fourth  Street 
Daniel  B.  Smith  33  High  (Market)  Street 
Robert  Milnor  161  S.  Second  Street 
Peter  Williamson  Second  and  Almond   Street  (be- 
These  street  numbers  are  under  the  former  system  and  bear 
no  direct  relation  to  present  locations. 
Samuel  Jackson  was  then  34  years  of  age,  and  had  been 
associated  with  his  father  and  brother  in  the  drug  busi- 
ness. He  became  the  first  Professor  of  Materia  Medica 
and  Pharmacy,  resigning  in  1827  to  take  a  similar  chair 
later  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  where  he  con- 
tinued until  his  death  in  1872.  He  was  one  of  the  most 
illustrious  of  practitioners  and  teachers  of  medicine  of 
his  time.  He  was  President  of  the  first  Philadelphia 
Board  of  Health,  which  had  as  its  secretary  the  renowned 
Stephen  North 
Henry  Troth 
Samuel  Biddle 
Charles  Allen 
Frederick  Brown 
(low  Bainbridge  Street) 
14. N.  Second  Street 
222  High  (Market)  Street 
142  High  (Market)  Street 
160  S.  Second  Street 
with  Chas.  Marshall,  56  Chestnut 
Street 
