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Obituary. 
(Am.  Jour.  Phariru 
1     August,  1901. 
ing  in  Philadelphia.  He  subsequently  travelled  from  Chicago  down 
the  Mississippi  on  a  steamboat  to  New  Orleans. 
In  1861  he  returned  to  New  York,  and  in  1863  he  sailed  for 
Puerto  Plata,  San  Domingo.  He  was  present  in  this  island  during 
one  of  the  periodical  revolts,  and  had  some  hairbreadth  escapes^ 
sailed  for  New  York,  and  subsequently,  in  Philadelphia,  enlisted 
as  a  surgeon  steward  on  the  "  Tunxis  "  (a  light  draft  monitor).  He 
did  not  relish  a  lite  on  the  monitor,  and  going  ashore,  enlisted 
in  Company  I,  Thirty-fourth  New  Jersey  Regiment,  and  was  sent  to 
Cairo,  111.  From  here  the  Army  of  the  Gulf  went  to  New  Orleans, 
but  before  Hans  Wilder  saw  a  battle  he  was  taken  ill,  and  sent  home 
from  Mobile  Bay  to  New  York. 
Soon  after  he  went  to  Chicago,  where  he  was  employed  as  a  drug 
clerk  in  different  stores  for  two  years.  He  then  returned  to  New 
York,  and  sailed  for  San  Francisco,  and  upon  his  arrival  here  he 
determined  to  try  silver  mining  at  Silver  City,  Nev.  He  was  a  sil- 
ver miner  for  half  a  day,  then  went  back  to  the  drug  business ;  but 
he  was  only  three  months  in  his  position  before  he  returned  to  San 
Francisco,  and  a  few  months  afterward  he  was  a  sailor  before  the 
mast  on  his  way  to  Liverpool. 
From  here  he  went  to  Copenhagen,  only  to  remain  a  short  time, 
when  he  left  for  Philadelphia  in  1868  ;  here  he  bought  a  drug  store 
on  Girard  Avenue,  which  he  sold  out  soon  afterward,  and  bought 
another  at  Fifth  and  Poplar  Streets;  this  he  sold  out  in  1876,  and 
then  went  again  to  New  York  as  relief  clerk. 
From  1879  to  1881  he  was  the  clerk  of  the  College  of  Pharmacy 
in  the  city  of  New  York,  then  travelled  to  Detroit,  Chicago,  Cin- 
cinnati and  Louisville,  and  was  called  back  to  Detroit  to  edit  the 
New  Idea  for  Frederick  Stearns  &  Co.  He  stayed  here  for  two 
years,  and  then  returned  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  died  January 
25,  1901. 
Hans  M.  Wilder  was  a  pharmacist  of  ability,  and  he  had  rare 
linguistic  talents.  He  was  particularly  fond  of  making  indexes  and 
abstracts  from  journals,  having  compiled  indexes  for  the  American 
Journal  of  Pharmacy,  Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  and  other  scientific  bodies.  He  frequently  contributed 
articles  to  the  pharmaceutical  journals  ;  "  Polyhistor  "  was  his  nom 
de  plume,  and  he  was  engaged  for  two  years  as  a  writer  for  the 
Druggists'  Cinidar.  Probably  his  most  remarkable  achievement  was 
