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Charles  Marshall,  the  first  President  of  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy,  descendant  of  a  distinguished  line  of  Phila- 
delphia apothecaries,  in  1821,  had  a  drug  store  at  56  Chestnut 
Street,  which  he,  a  man  of  77  years,  conducted  with  the  help  of  his 
remarkable  daughter,  Elizabeth,  who  when  her  father  lost  his  first 
modest  fortune  in  1804,  encouraged  him  to  start  anew  with  the 
front  room  of  their  house  converted  into  a  little  shop,  which  by 
1 82 1  had  grown  into  a  highly  prosperous  estalishment. 
William  Lehman,  elected  first  Vice-President  at  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy  organization  meeting,  had  a  drug  store 
on  Second  Street,  between  Arch  and  Race.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Legislature  from  1814  until  his  death  in  1829,  when  he  willed 
$10,000,  a  considerable  sum  in  those  days,  to  the  Philadelphia 
Athenaeum,  inaugurating  a  custom,  followed  by  too  many  wealthy 
pharmacists  since  that  time,  of  bestowing  their  largess  upon  worthy 
objects  outside  of  the  institutions  of  their  own  calling. 
Stephen  North  was  chairman  of  the  Carpenters'  Hall  meet- 
ing and  was  elected  Second  Vice-President  at  the  organization 
meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  All  that  has 
come  to  light  concerning  him  is  that  he  was  a  wholesale  druggist 
and  that  he  died  in  1826. 
Peter  Williamson,  the  secretary  of  the  Carpenters'  Hall 
meeting,  in  1821,  was  a  partner  in  the  drug  store  of  Klapp  &  Wil- 
liamson, Second  and  Almond  Streets.  In  1874  he  founded  the 
Peter  Williamson  scholarship,  which  has  been  of  great  service  to 
many  young  men  since.  He  died  in  1886  at  the  advanced  age  of 
91  years. 
Daniel  B.  Smith,  the  first  Secretary  of  the  Philadelphia  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy,  in  1821,  was  a  partner  in  the  "firm  of  Smith  & 
Hodgson,  Sixth  and  Arch,  a  store  that  eventually  developed  into 
the  business  of  Bullock  and  Crenshaw.  Mr.  Smith  is  one  of  the 
numerous  illustrations  of  the  scholar  in  pharmacy  that  gives  the  lie 
to  the  flippant  opinion  handed  down  in  1912  from  the  Federal 
Bench  in  New  York,  in  which  occurred  the  phrase  "druggists  all 
over  the  country:  men  of  no  great  learning."  Besides  his  activity 
in  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  he  became,  in  1834, 
professor  of  philosophy,  literature  and  chemistry  at  Haverford 
College. 
