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Charles  Allen  was  a  druggist  at  160  South  Second  Street, 
resigned  in  1827  and  removed  from  the  city. 
Frederick  Brown  was  another  young  man  of  25,  who  learned 
the  drug  business  with  Charles  Marshall,  beginning  with 
1812,  and  was  associated  with  him  for  a  number  of  years 
subsequently.  He  was  in  business  for  himself  at  Fifth  and 
Chestnut  Streets  for  many  years.  He,  too,  was  promi- 
nently identified  with  the  development  and  work  of  many 
Philadelphia  institutions,  was  manager  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Hospital  for  a  time,  and  one  of  the  founders  of  Laurel 
Hill  Cemetery. 
These  brief  sketches  show  the  type  of  men  who  founded  this 
great  Institution.  It  was  an  enterprise  of  youth,  for  the  average 
age  of  the  five  whose  ages  we  know,  was  but  28  years  at  the  time 
of  the  founding,  the  oldest  being  Samuel  Jackson,  who  was  34, 
and  the  youngest,  Peter  Williamson,  who  was  but  24. 
YVe  owe  a  debt  of  gratitude,  too,  for  the  selection  of  Car- 
penters' Hall  for  their  initial  meeting.  It  is  in  harmony  with  the 
high  ideals  subsequently  displayed  in  handling  the  affairs  of  the 
College. 
This  Committee  called  their  associates  together  on  March  13th, 
at  which  time  they  recommended  the  establishment  of  a  College  of 
Apothecaries  and  the  erection  of  a  School  of  Pharmacy.  There 
were  sixty-eight  charter  members  of  this  proposed  college.  Their 
names  and  addresses  at  that  time  are  as  follows : 
Charles  Marshall  56  Chestnut  Street 
Jeremiah  Morris  293  High  (Market)  Street 
William  Heyl  35  High  Street 
John  Elliott  60  South  Front  Street 
Peter  Lehman  320  High  Street 
Daniel  Elliott  60  South  Front  Street 
Wm.  Revoudt,  M.D.  Wood  Street  and  Old  York  Road 
Mathias  Pleis  461  North  2nd  Street 
Edmund  Pryor  373  North  Front  Street 
Thomas  Wiltberger  169  North  2nd  Street 
Jacob  Bigonet  158  Lombard  Street 
Frederick  Klett  261  North  2nd  Street 
Thomas  Cave  298  High  Street 
.  Caleb  Ash,  Jr.  66  North  9th  Street 
