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papers,  several  contributions  on  scientific  subjects.  He  possessed 
considerable  skill  as  a  taxidermist  and  made  extensive  collections 
of  birds. 
Entering  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  he  was  graduated 
therefrom  in  1 85  6  and  immediately  engaged  on  a  lecturing  tour 
through  Pennsylvania,  delivering  a  series  of  lectures  on  chemical 
physics. 
Mr.  Warner  opened  a  store  at  Second  and  Girard  Avenue.  Being 
ambitious,  he  was  not  content  with  the  retail  business  and  grad- 
ually engaged  in  manufacturing,  and  selling  out  his  retail  business, 
he  now  located  at  154  North  Third  Street  as  a  wholesaler.  He 
engaged  extensively  in  the  manufacture  of  sugar-coated  pills  and 
granules  and  sought  foreign  as  well  as  home  markets  for  his 
products. 
In  1876,  the  firm  removed  to  a  six-story  building,  1228  Market 
Street,  and  there  engaged  in  manufacturing  a  more  extended  line  of 
pharmaceuticals.  This  building  becoming  inadequate  for  their 
manufacturing  business,  a  lot  at  Broad  and  Wallace  Streets  was 
procured  and  a  ten-story  building,  known  as  "  Warner  Hall,"  was 
erected.  Here  the  laboratories  were  established  and  after  the  dis- 
astrous fire  in  1899,  which  destroyed  their  Market  Street  building, 
the  entire  business  of  the  firm  was  removed  to  this  place. 
Wm.  R.  Warner  joined  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  in 
1858  and  was  a  life  member.  For  several  years  after  graduating 
from  the  College  he  took  quite  an  interest  in  matters  relating  to 
scientific  pharmacy  and  contributed  a  number  of  articles  to  phar- 
maceutical literature,  ten  papers  appearing  in  the  American  Jour- 
nal of  Pharmacy.  For  several  years  he  served  on  the  Herbarium 
Committee,  associated  with  the  late  Prof.  John  M.  Maisch.  Later, 
the  details  of  business  engrossed  his  thoughts  and  here  he  exhibited 
the  same  energy  and  avidity  for  mastering  the  problems  of  com- 
merce and  manufacture.  He  was  also  the  possessor  of  a  valuable 
collection  of  paintings,  especially  rich  in  portraits  of  noted  men. 
Wm.  R.  Warner  was  taken  ill  in  New  York  while  on  a  business 
trip  and  was  brought  home  suffering  from  a  general  collapse.  After 
suffering  for  three  weeks  he  was  striken  with  a  second  stroke  of 
paralysis  on  the  morning  of  April  3d  and  died  in  a  short  time.  He 
is  survived  by  three  sons,  who  will  continue  the  business  of  manu- 
facturing pharmacists  under  the  old  firm  title.  G.  M.  B. 
