190  Pharmacy  Hundred  Years  Ago.       |A^£X'  §21 m' 
Frederick  Brown,  one  of  the  Founders,  in  1821,  was  a  drug 
clerk,  employed  by  Charles  Marshall.  In  1822,  he  started  his  own 
successful  business,  which  he  continued  until  his  death  in  1864. 
Among  the  other  Philadelphia  druggists  of  1821  and  shortly 
thereafter  we  note  the  following: 
Benjamin  Ellis,  originally  a  druggist  at  Muncy,  Pa.,  in  182 1, 
was  studying  medicine  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  In  1827, 
he  became  professor  of  materia  medica  at  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy. 
Franklin  Smith,  in  182 1  or  shortly  thereafter,  had  a  drug 
store  at  Eighth  and  Walnut.  He  was  the  preceptor  of  Henry  C. 
Blair,  who  in  1828,  bought  the  Smith  drug  store  and  thus  estab- 
lished the  historic  Blair  pharmacies. 
George  Glent worth,  in  1821,  conducted,  at  Sassafras  (now 
Race)  and  Chester  Streets,  the  pharmacy,  the  fixtures  of  which  are 
now  exhibited  in  the  College  Museum. 
Eli  as  Durand,  in  1821,  was  a  clerk  in  Ducatel's  famous 
French  pharmacy  in  Baltimore.  In  1825,  he  opened  his  pharmacy 
at  Sixth  and  Chestnut,  Philadelphia,  which  for  many  years  was 
the  most  renowned  drug  store  in  the  city.  He  was  vice-president 
of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  in  1844  and  contributed 
numerous  papers  to  the  Journal. 
As  to  pharmacy  in  Boston  in  .1821,  a  delightful  series  of 
thirteen  papers  by  W.  A.  Brewer  that  appeared  in  the  Pharmaceu- 
tical Record  in  1884,  gives  the  most  vivid  picture  of  the  time  that 
has  as  yet  been  found.  The  series  tempts  one  to  make  numerous 
quotations,  but  at  this  time  it  can  only  be  stated  that  Mr.  Brewer 
began  his  pharmaceutical  apprenticeship  in  June,  1821,  in  the  whole- 
sale drug  store  of  Bartlett  and  Brewer  on  Washington  (then 
Cornwall)  Street,  Boston.  He  states  that  at  that  time  the  wholesale 
firm  of  Rice,  Henshaw  &  Company  was  the  largest  drug  distributors 
in  the  United  States;  that  David  Henshaw  later  became  Secretary 
of  the  Navy;  that  in  1821,  there  were  in  Boston  seven  wholesale 
and  twenty-three  retail  drug  stores,  among  these  being  those  of 
George  Brinley,  Robert  Fennelly,  Charles  Nolan,  John  I.  Brown 
(of  bronchial  troches  fame),  Maynard  and  Noyes,  Love  and  Reed; 
