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Obituary. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
t       Aug.,  1892. 
which  position  he  held  until  1891.  His  connection  with  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  dates  from  the  year  1859,  and  in  the 
lowing  year  he  contributed  to  its  Proceedings  a  paper  on  the  deprecia- 
tion of  Smyrna  opium  in  medicinal  value,  which  marks  the  beginning 
of  his  literary  career.  Having  given  up  his  retail  stores  in  1870,  he 
became  connected  with  wholesale  houses,  first  with  Tarrant  &  Co.,  and  subse- 
quently with  Lazell,  Marsh  &  Gardner,  until  1883.  The  excellent  oppor- 
tunities afforded  him  through  this  connection  widened  his  views  on  commer- 
cial subjects,  and  his  writings  became  more  varied  and  more  frequent,  more 
especially  his  contributions  to  the  Druggists'  Circular,  then  edited  by  Dr. 
Newton,  and  his  subsequent  papers  for  the  Pharmaceutical  Record,  the  editor- 
ship and  management  of  which  he  undertook  in  1883,  at  the  same  time 
changing  its  former  title  of  "Martin's  Chemists'  and  Druggists' Bulletin." 
It  was  due  mainly  to  his  energy  that  the  New  York  State  Pharmaceutical 
Association  was  organized  in  1879  5  P^of.  Bedford  was  complimented  by  being 
elected  its  first  president.  In  1884,  he  became  a  member  of  the  New  York 
City  Board  of  Pharmacy,  and  was  elected  its  president,  continuing  in  service 
until  the  time  of  his  death.  In  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
besides  having  served  on  many  committees,  he  was  corresponding  secretary 
from  i860  to  1862,  and  again  from  1863  to  1866,  when  that  office  was  discon- 
tinued, he  having  served  as  recording  secretary  at  the  meeting  in  Philadelphia 
in  1862,  and  at  the  first  session  of  the  Baltimore  meeting  in  1863.  He  was  the 
first  local  secretary  elected  by  the  association  and  acted  as  such  for  the  New 
York  meeting  in  1867.  In  1881,  at  the  Kansas  City  meeting,  he  was  called  to 
the  presidential  chair.  He  was  very  rarely  absent  from  the  annual  meetings 
of  this  association  during  a  period  of  thirty-two  years. 
Professor  Bedford  was,  verily,  a  busy  man.  His  genial  disposition  secured 
for  him  a  large  circle  of  friends  ;  and  it  will,  indeed,  be  impossible  to  fill 
his  place  in  the  varied  spheres  alluded  to  above.  Though  retired  as  a 
teacher,  he  retained  until  the  last  his  interest  in  the  promotion  of  pharmacy, 
and  his  devotion  to  the  institutions  and  bodies  with  which  he  had  been  con- 
nected during  his  busy  life.  For  some  time  past  he  had  been  aware  of  some 
affection  of  the  heart ;  but  during  the  trip  on  the  steamer  Puritan  from  New 
York  to  Boston,  he  appeared  to  be  in  his  usual  good  health  and  spirits. 
He  was  somewhat  indisposed  on  the  journey  to  the  White  Mountains,  but 
was  taken  seriously  ill  on  the  night  of  July  16,  his  condition  being  aggravated 
by  apoplexy  on  Monday,  until  he  died  on  the  following  Wednesday.  His  body 
was  taken  to  his  home  in  New  York,  where  the  funeral  services  were  held  on 
Friday,  July  22. 
