THE  AMERICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY 
SEPTEMBER,  igoi. 
EDWARD  ROBINSON  SQUIBB,  M.D. 
By  Joseph  P.  Remington. 
Edward  Robinson  Squibb  was  born  in  Wilmington,  Del.,  July  4, 
1 8 19.  His  parents  were  James  R.  Squibb  and  Catherine  H.,  his 
wife.  His  early  education  was  received  in  Wilmington,  and  at  the 
age  of  eighteen  he  was  apprenticed  to  Warder  Morris,  a  druggist 
in  Philadelphia,  and  from  1837  to  x^42  ne  learned  the  drug  business 
with  the  houses  of  Warder  Morris  and  J.  H.  Sprague. 
He  had  long  desired  to  acquire  a  medical  degree,  and  he  rightly 
judged  that  there  could  be  no  better  preparation  for  his  work  than 
experience  in  the  drug  business.  In  addition  to  this,  as  his  parents' 
means  were  slender,  he  could  earn  something,  and,  at  least,  be  self- 
supporting  during  these  early  years  of  study. 
As  is  so  often  the  case  with  distinguished  men,  these  early 
years  were  not  marked  by  any  especial  aptitude  for  medicine  or 
pharmacy,  as  he  was  himself  frequently  heard  to  declare.  In  1842, 
at  the  age  of  twenty-three,  he  matriculated  in  Jefferson  Medical 
College,  of  Philadelphia,  and  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  from  that 
College  on  March  20,  1845. 
His  steadiness  and  ability  were  at  once  recognized  by  his  Alma 
Mater,  and  he  was  elected  Assistant  Demonstrator  of  Anatomy, 
Curator  of  the  Museum  and  Clerk  of  the  Clinic. 
He  practised  medicine  in  Philadelphia  until  1847,  when  he  con- 
1The  accompanying  likeness  of  Dr.  Squibb  first  appeared  in  the  Medical 
News,  November  3,  1900,  trie  photograph  having  been  made  two  years  before 
Dr.  Squibb's  death. — Editor. 
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