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Reprinted from THE AMERICAN Journal OF PHARMACY, February,
1918, by the PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY
PRESS OF
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Memoir: Professor Joseph Price Remington. By Charles H.
LaWall, Ph.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A Letter to Editor Eugene G. Eberle Relating to Professor
Joseph P. Remington. By John Uri Lloyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Funeral of Professor Joseph Price Remington . . . . . . . . . .
The Memorial Meeting to Professor Remington. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Letter of George M. Beringer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Resolutions of the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association.
Resolutions of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy . . . . . . .
Resolutions of the Faculty of the Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • * * * * * * * * * * *
Tributes
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Professor Emeritus Samuel P. Sadtler.
President, Howard B. French.
Professor J. W. Sturmer.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley.
Prof. J. A. Koch.
Mr. J. L. Lemberger.
Prof. H. V. Arny.
Mr. Samuel L. Hilton.
Mr. Caswell A. Mayo.
Dr. H. C. Wood, Jr.
Prof. E. G. Eberle.
Dr. F. E. Stewart.
Prof. Charles H. LaWall.
Dr. C. B. Lowe.
Prof. E. Fullerton Cook.
Dr. S. P. Stout.
Prof. F. X. Moerk.
Telegrams Received by the College and Mrs. J. P. Remington.
Communications Received after the Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . .
Action Taken by the National Drug Trade Conference . . . .
An Appreciation of Professor Joseph P. Remington by
George M. Beringer, Ph.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Read at the Meeting of the New York Branch of the American
Pharmaceutical Association.
A Tribute to Joseph P. Remington. By Joseph W. England,
Ph.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Read at the Meeting of the New York Branch of the American
Pharmaceutical Association. $
Editorial: A Great Leader Has Passed Away. American Jour-
nal of Pharmacy

PROFESSOR JOSEPH PRICE REMINGTON.
By CHARLEs H. LAWALL, PH.M.
“He who influences the thought of his time influences the
thought of all the time that follows. And he has made his impress
upon eternity.”
Professor Joseph Price Remington is dead. On January I,
1918, Atropos severed the thread of a life which has meant much
to pharmacy. Clothos' distaff bore the unsullied skein which
Lachesis had measured for more than seventy years.
It is difficult, indeed, to correctly estimate the value of a man's
services to the world before time has developed the true perspective,
but there will be none to challenge the statement that for a period
of at least twenty-five years, Professor Joseph P. Remington was
the foremost figure in American pharmacy. Genial and eloquent,
a keen student of human nature, a lover of the beautiful in art,
music and literature, possessed of a fund of scientific knowledge of
unusually broad scope, and with it all a consciousness of power
that made him an acknowledged leader among men—these are some
of the qualities that were combined in him to make a great teacher,
a capable executive and a Christian gentleman, clean-minded and
clean-hearted.
He was the descendant of early Philadelphia Quaker stock, his
ancestors for three generations having been residents of that city
and members of the Society of Friends. His father was Dr. Isaac
Remington, a well-known Philadelphia physician. His mother was
the daughter of John Hart, who was a descendant of Townsend
Speakman, an apothecary in Philadelphia early in the eighteenth
century, and the sign from this old store was given a prominent
place in Professor Remington's private office at the Philadelphia
College of Pharmacy.
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Josep H PRICE REMINGTON.
He inherited a liking and an aptitude for scientific study, and
when but a small boy had equipped a chemical laboratory in which
most of the apparatus was of his own devising and construction.
In the collection at the College is a Liebig condenser made by him
at the age of twelve, out of a tin roll-plaster case, two heavy rubber
washers and several pieces of glass tubing, which has done service in
lecture counter experiments for more than fifty years.
His father died when Joseph Remington was but fifteen years
of age. The plans which had been made for him to obtain an
academic college degree were abandoned. He received his pre-
liminary education in private schools, and in the Philadelphia Cen-
tral High School. At the time of his father's death, the members
of his family wished him to take up the study of medicine, but he
decided that he preferred to study pharmacy instead. It was a
decision purely his own and tis wisdom is confirmed by his subse-
quent brilliant career in the profession of his choice.
January 1, 1863, exactly fifty-five years before the day of his
death, he entered the establishment of Charles Ellis, Son & Co., a
prominent firm of wholesale and retail druggists of that time in
Philadelphia. He was guided in his choice of a preceptor by his
brother-in-law, Henry M. Troth, the son of one of the founders of
the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. His experience at the Ellis
store covered an unusually wide range, even at that time, for the
firm was one that did a great deal of manufacturing on what was
then considered a very large scale. He was fortunate in the fact,
too, that Mr. Charles Ellis, the head of the firm, and at that time the
president of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, took a more
than ordinary interest in him and encouraged him to attend the
lectures at the college during the years of his apprenticeship. The
lectures at that time were given in the evenings and the course was
of two years’ duration. At the commencement exercises held in
I866, Joseph P. Remington was graduated from the institution in
whose service he was destined to spend so many useful years and
was awarded the degree of Ph.G. Curiously enough and prophetic
in its significance, the title of his graduating thesis was “Our Alma
Mater, Its Rise and Progress.”
In January, 1867, Professor Remington left Philadelphia to
enter the employ of Dr. E. R. Squibb, then the foremost manu-
facturer of chemicals and pharmaceuticals in the United States.
Josep II PRICE REM INGTON. 3
His experience with Dr. Squibb afforded an unusual opportunity
for him to amass that fund of technical knowledge which gave him
such an advantage over many of his contemporaries who were not
similarly favored by fortune. Dr. Squibb's reputation for pains-
taking and conscientious scientific work and his high standard of
ethics were universally conceded and the influence of this period
upon Professor Remington's future work must have been very
great. He lived as a member of Dr. Squibb's family and was thus
brought into close touch with a master in the profession.
After three years of experience under Dr. Squibb he was re-
called to Philadelphia by the death of his mother and, remaining in
his home town, entered the employ of Powers & Weightman, with
whom he remained for two years, during which period he added still
further to his practical knowledge of manufacturing operations.
While with this firm, in 1871, he first became associated with the
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in an active way, by accepting an
invitation to become the assistant to Dr. Edward Parrish, who was
at that time Professor of Pharmacy. In 1872 he left the employ
of Powers & Weightman to establish himself in the retail drug busi-
ness at the northeast corner of 13th and Walnut Streets. In this
same year, Professor Parrish died and was succeeded by Professor
William Procter, Jr., who retained Professor Remington as the
assistant in that department.
In 1874 Professor Procter's death occurred and in the spring
of that year, Joseph P. Remington was elected to the full professor-
ship in pharmacy, a position held by him for a period of forty-four
years, or until his death.
The period from 1874 until 1885 was one of steady development
for the young professor. The thirteen years that he remained in
active retail drug practice (1872 to 1885) proved him to be pos-
sessed of keen business ability as well as professional attainments
of a high order. In 1868 he had become a member of the American
Pharmaceutical Association and was honored by that body in 1876
by being made chairman of the committee in connection with the
famous Centennial Exhibition of 1876, commemorating the hun-
dredth anniversary of American Independence. This was an im-
portant post for a young man of twenty-nine years, but he filled it
well and paved the way for the future honors which were to come
to him at the hands of this Association.
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At this period of Professor Remington's life he was a man of
quite different personal appearance from that which distinguished
him in later years, for he wore a full beard of a reddish-brown
color, and one of the most interesting paintings in the valuable col-
lection on the walls of the college museum is one of the Professor
Remington at about that time.
In 1874 he married Miss Elizabeth Collins, also of Quaker an-
cestry, and in the early 80's established a summer home on the then
almost unpopulated beach below Atlantic City known as Longport,
at which place he did most of his most valuable literary and revision
committee work, and took an active part in the growth and develop-
ment of the Borough. }
In 1877 he aided and encouraged the establishment of labora-
tory instruction in the college and was elected director of the phar-
maceutical laboratory in that year.
In 1878 he became one of the organizers and charter members
of the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association and in 1879 he be-
came one of the associate editors of the United States Dispensatory,
a position held continuously until his death.
In this same year he developed the methods of laboratory teach-
ing in pharmacy which have been so successfully followed in later
years by all teachers of pharmacy. The first operative pharmacy
laboratory of about 60 desks in the Philadelphia College of Phar-
macy was equipped by him at his own expense.
In 1885 he gave up his retail business at 13th and Walnut and
purchased the home at 1832 Pine Street, where he lived until his
death, except during the summer months, which were spent at Long-
port. It was in 1885 that his great work, the “Practice of Phar-
macy,” was first issued. This is probably the most widely known
textbook of pharmacy in the world and is now in its sixth edition.
His first connection with pharmacopoeial revision work was in
1877, when he was appointed upon an auxiliary committee of revi-
sion by the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. In 1880 he was a
member of the United States Pharmacopoeial Convention, was
chosen as a member of the revision committee and served as first
vice-chairman. This honor was again conferred upon him by the
Decennial Convention of 1900.
In 1886–7 Professor Remington received his first honors from
abroad in his election to Fellowships in the Chemical, Linnaean and
JOSEPH PRICE REMINGTON. 5
Royal Microscopical Societies of Great Britain. These honors were
later succeeded by honorary membership in the Pharmaceutical So-
ciety of Great Britain, the British Pharmaceutical Conference,
Pharmaceutical Gesellschaft zu St. Petersburg, Instituto Medico
Nacional Mexico, Societé de Pharmacie d’Anvers, Societé Royale de
Pharmacie de Bruxelles.
He has also been the recipient of many honorary degrees, in-
cluding Ph.M. of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Phar.D. of
the Northwestern University of Chicago. Of American scientific
societies he is an honorary member of the College of Pharmacy of
the City of New York and of the State Pharmaceutical Associations
of New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Ohio,
Colorado, Virginia, Georgia, Minnesota and others. He was proud
of his honorary membership in the New York Deutscher Apotheker
Verein and the Chicago Veteran Retail Druggists' Association.
He was an active member of the American Pharmaceutical As-
sociation, American Philosophical Society, the American Chemical
Society, the American Geographical Society, the Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Penn-
Sylvania, the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, the Pennsylvania
Pharmaceutical Association, the Chemists’ Club of New York, and
others.
His literary ability brought him recognition in membership in
the Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia and the Authors’ Club of
London.
He was the official representative of the United States at the
Eighth International Pharmaceutical Congress at Brussels in 1896
and in 1913 at the Hague, was a delegate to the Pan-American
Medical Congress in 1893 and again in 1896.
In 1893 he was elected dean of the Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy, succeeding Prof. John M. Maisch, who died during the
Summer of that year. This position he held until his death.
In 1893 he had the honor of occupying the presidential chair in
the American Pharmaceutical Association, at what was probably the
most important meeting in its history up to that time, it being held
in Chicago during the World's Fair of that year, and there was
held at the same time and place an International Pharmaceutical
Conference, over which he also presided.
His influence in shaping the policies and promoting the success
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of the A. Ph. A. had been shown when in 1887 he elaborated a plan
for reorganizing this Association and establishing several of the
Sections which have been so valuable in the work of the Association,
all of its work having previously been done by the entire body. In
1880 he had aided in the establishment of the council as the govern-
ing body of the A. Ph. A., and served as chairman of that important
executive body for seven years altogether, some of which were in
its earlier period and some later.
In 1896 he was elected president of the Pennsylvania Pharma-
ceutical Association. In 1897 he became pharmaceutical editor of
Lippincott's Medical Dictionary, a standard reference work which
has passed through many subsequent editions.
In 1887 he attended the American Medical Association meeting
as a delegate from the A. Ph. A. and induced that body to establish
a section on materia medica and pharmacy, which later became the
Section on Pharmacology and Therapeutics. He was often a dele-
gate from pharmaceutical to medical organizations in later years
and has done more than any other single man to promote cordial
relations between the professions of medicine and pharmacy.
In 1901 occurred the death of Dr. Charles Rice, then chairman
of the U. S. P. revision committee. Professor Remington was
first vice-chairman, but instead of automatically succeeding to the
chairmanship, he called for a special election to fill the vacancy and
was himself elected by a vote of 22 to 4.
The difficulties encountered in accomplishing the Eighth Decen-
nial Revision were very great, and a number of the most prominent
officers and members of the committee died during the period in
which the revision was being done. The work was handled so well,
however, and the demonstration of his great executive and harmoniz-
ing abilities was so convincing, that when the Convention met in
I9IO to select the committee for the Ninth Decennial Revision, he
was the member receiving the largest number of votes cast for any
individual as a member of that body and when the newly elected
revision committee was organized for work he was immediately
and unanimously chosen its chairman. Of the work on this later
revision, issued a little more than a year ago, nothing need be said.
It stands as a monument to his ability, the last and greatest work
of his hand and brain.
In 1912 he presided over the Pharmaceutical Section of the
JOSEPHI PRICE REMINGTON. 7
Eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry at New York
City.
The foregoing chronological survey of more than fifty years of
Professor Joseph P. Remington's professional activities reveals a
wealth of accomplishment that would suffice for a number of ordi-
nary individuals. His was no ordinary nature, however. One of
his secrets of success, which was really no secret at all, but an
exhibition of that wonderful common sense which after all is so
uncommon in application, was his system of combining work and
play in such proportions as enabled him to do twice as much work
as if he had devoted his entire time to work alone. His power of
concentration, his passion for careful attention to details, his in-
sistenc upon the same standards in those who worked for him, are
all evidences of a master mind.
Early in his life, Professor Remington and his wife were both
members of the Society of Friends, but about 1880 he joined the
Episcopalian Church and was for many years intimately associated
with Holy Trinity Church as a Sunday-School worker, a member
of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew and as a vestryman.
His deep interest in church work was shown by the fact that he
deeded the land and contributed generously to the finances of the
Church of the Redeemer at Longport, which was under his im-
mediate supervision while he lived and which was directed in his
will to be turned over to the Diocese of New Jersey at his death.
His simplicity in his habits of life, his innate cleanness of
thought and speech, his “camaraderie 5 3
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and “gemüthlichkeit" were
qualities that made him loved and respected. His loyalty to his
alma mater and his constant thought and service in her interests
can be attested by thousands of “his boys’ as his students loved
to hear him call them.
His deep abiding faith in the nobility and dignity of pharmacy
as a profession was his strongest trait. No task was too difficult
to perform, no expense was questioned when he saw a chance to
be of service to a profession of which he was so proud. He prob-
ably has attended more meetings and taken an important part there-
in, than any other professional man of our time.
His diplomatic power and his harmonizing influence were
wonderful. Time and time again has he stepped into the breach
when discord seemed to reign supreme and by his compelling
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personal magnetism brought about a condition of harmony. He
has been justly called a great stabilizer.
Equipped by nature with a winning personality, a gift of elo-
quence and of diction of unusually appealing quality, he has
charmed thousands as a speaker upon various subjects, professional
and otherwise. His gift of imparting knowledge and enthusiasm to
others was marvelous. He has justly been called a teacher of
teachers, for the land is filled with those who have sat at his feet
and then have gone forth to carry the torch of knowledge to other
generations.
His keenness and cleanness of wit, his qualities as an ex-
temporaneous speaker have made him a toastmaster without a peer
and he was much sought after upon occasions requiring such
service. He was honest and conscientious to a degree that some-
times was inimical to his own interests. During his three decades
of service in revision committee work he was ever careful to see
that the U. S. Pharmacopoeia was entirely finished and out of his
hands before doing a particle of work on the revision of either the
“Practice of Pharmacy” or the U. S. Dispensatory, lest it should
be said that he took advantage of his advance knowledge to reap
financial gain.
His family has lost a husband and a father, his college has lost a
dean and a professor, his profession has lost its most shining light,
and the world has lost a man—a man of whom it can be truly said
that he conformed to Huxley's definition of one who had a liberal
education, to wit:
“That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been
so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will,
and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism,
it is capable of ; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with
all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready
like a steam engine to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the
gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind; whose mind is
stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of
nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted
ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to
come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience;
who has learned to love all beauty, whether of nature or art, to hate
all vileness, and to respect others as himself.”
Such a man was Joseph P. Remington. Generations of pharma-
cists shall not look upon his like again.
LETTER FROM JOHN URI LLOYD. 9
A LETTER TO THE EDITOR RELATING TO PROF.
JOSEPH P. REMINGTON."
I have been informed that Professor Remington is very low, and
that possibly we may never have the opportunity of another visit
together. One may be excused, in a case like this, for addressing
a mutual friend, even though the subject be painful to both, and
thus I take the privilege of writing you, who, now residing in the
city home of Professor Remington, as editor of the Journal of the
American Pharmaceutical Association, will be in affiliating sym-
pathy with persons like myself, afar off.
These many years ago Professor Remington and I met first in
Indianapolis, Ind., at the meeting of the American Pharmaceutical
Association, 1879. Professor Remington was then in the vigor of
his early manhood. I studied him as a hero, because even at that
date his magnificent Services to pharmacy had led everyone to con-
sider him as perhaps the most conspicuous incoming American
engaged in pure pharmacy in all its outreaches. A professor in the
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy; a successful conductor of a
drug store in the city of Philadelphia; schooled as he had been with
such men as Procter, Parrish and Maisch, with the practical experi-
ence that came from personal effort under that Nestor of American
pharmacy, Dr. Edw. R. Squibb, in whose laboratory Professor
Remington, close to Squibb, served an apprenticeship, this, too.
years after he began his apprenticeship opportunity with the estab-
lished house of Charles Ellis Sons & Co., of Philadelphia. One
can but comprehend that to the present writer the chance, to one
whose opportunities had not been great, of meeting this celebrated
pharmacist, was an epoch, an event.
May this writer not add that possibly but for Professor Rem-
ington he might not himself have been long in the service of phar-
macy? Remington it was who championed his cause in a personal
way at Indianapolis, even volunteering and reading the paper pre-
pared by the writer for that occasion, “On the Conditions Neces-
sary to Successfully Conduct Percolation.”
* From the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, Jan-
uary, 1918.
* See Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association, 1879,
p. 682.
IO LETTER FROM JOHN URI LLOYD.
Close together have we been since that date, each serving in
the field of pharmaceutical opportunity, these fields often seemingly
separated, and yet united as a whole. In my praise of Remington,
I voice what seems sure to me to be the sentiment of thousands of
pharmacists who, in separated sections of the country, have been in
close touch with this leader of us all, Professor Joseph P. Reming-
ton, in Philadelphia.
My dear Mr. Eberle: May I not, in the frankest way possible,
express to you these thoughts, and may I not accept that in express-
ing them, as a lingering member of the associates of Professor
Remington who have passed away, as well as thousands of pharma-
cists in America who may not feel at liberty, as do I, to takeſ that
privilege, that I may add to the foregoing even yet a further word?
Among the past close friends of Professor Remington, none of
whom are now with us, I recall Professor Saunders, of Canada, a
bosom friend of Remington; they attended the National meetings
and roomed together. Together they visited England, ovations
marking their course in that country. So very close were they that
the terms Joseph and William only were used in conversation.
That very talented man, Professor John M. Maisch, a teacher-com-
panion of Remington, attended always in Remington's company
the meetings of the American Pharmaceutical Association; together
they came, never a word of discord between them; companions were
they, until came the announcement at our Chicago American Phar-
maceutical Association meeting (1893) that Professor Maisch had
passed away. Dr. Charles Rice, that remarkable man whose biog-
raphy has never yet been written, and in my opinion never can be,
was to Professor Remington, as to all others, an inspiration. Of
Edw. Parrish, to whom Remington was an assistant, Professor Rem-
ington always thought and spoke with the utmost veneration, which
was also true of Professor Wm. Procter, Jr. And be it said that
the wealth of pharmaceutical opportunity that came to Professor
Remington from these teachers and companions was distributed
by him to the world-at-large. To thus name all the companions of
the olden time, made by Professor Remington, would be to mention
every teacher who had accomplished or contributed to the cause
during the period of Remington's early activity.
But not alone with such as these did Prof. Remington fraternize.
Not a student, within forty years, has been graduated from the
LETTER FROM JOHN URI LLOYD. I I
College of Pharmacy in Philadelphia, but feels that he is a close
friend of sympathetic Professor Remington. It has been my privi-
lege to meet many hundreds of these graduates of that long-estab-
lished institution, and never, so far as I can recall, did a discussion
connected with pharmacy occur but that the name of Professor
Remington came in as that of one of whom the speaker knew per-
sonally. This, I will say, is literally true, because every member
of the class of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy for decades
has been to Professor Remington a personal charge, and Remington
being in the department of pharmacy is naturally very close to any
student whose life work is to be pharmacy.
But what of other companions? To my mind's eye they arise,
everywhere.
Wherever there was to be an event in pharmacy that would
bring together men imbued with the cause of pharmacy, Remington
was sure to be present, and not alone was he present, but actively
so. A leader among them all was he. If an address was to be
made, Remington was the one selected for the purpose, in whatever
direction it may have been necessary. And, Remington never failed.
At alumni meetings and college reunions held by pharmaceutical
organizations Remington was considered one of the members, as
much so as though his college course had been in their college. Be
it known, to Professor Remington the cause of pharmacy was
cosmopolitan, and he considered himself to be concerned in every
phase of pharmaceutical effort. Whoever was teaching, whoever
was studying, whoever was contributing in any direction, and from
any direction, was in his circle. ->
Perhaps the most enjoyable of all occasions at the various meet-
ings of pharmaceutical associations that it came my privilege to
attend were those of the alumni of the Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy, and in these always Professor Remington was not only
an integral part, but a cherished guest; a representative of the
world-at-large, as well as of the college to which he devoted his
special time.
And not alone with those concerned in manipulative pharmacy
such as becomes the charge of the apothecary, but of men engaged
in pharmaceutical activities on a very large scale, such as came into
the field with the entrance of the factory manufacturer, “the manu-
*-
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facturing pharmacist,” did Professor Remington affiliate, by right
of education. His personal experience with Dr. Squibb, the con-
nection his preceptors, Procter and Parrish, held with such as
Tilden and Company, Charles Ellis Sons and Company, Wm. R.
Warner and Company, Hance Brothers and White, Charles Bullock,
Sharpe and Dohme, Frederick Stearns, of Detroit, and others of
the struggling pioneers of those days, led Professor Remington to
a kindly affiliation with those establishing and conducting such in-
dustries as these. He appreciated that they had become a part in
American pharmaceutical evolution, and that in their activities the
factor of pharmaceutical education of the individual should domi-
nate. And hence we note his kindly affiliation and helpful services
to those who came in later, principal among whom may be men-
tioned Parke, Davis & Co., of Detroit, and Eli Lilly & Co., of
Indianapolis. Well do I remember how, when Mr. Eli Lilly,
founder of the house, gave a home banquet on a special occasion
two decades or more ago, Professor Remington made the journey
from Philadelphia to Indianapolis. And surely Remington would
have made that journey if for no other reason than to please his
pupil, J. K. Lilly, whose pharmacy instruction was taken under
Professor Remington in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.
Well do I remember that happy occasion, which it was also my
privilege to enjoy.
As would be supposed from the congenial nature of Professor
Remington, which so impressed everyone he met, his family rela-
tionship is most delightful. To touch this phase of his life is a very
delicate subject, even in a letter to a mutual friend, but yet I cannot
refrain from expressing to you the pleasures that have come to me
in the visits to and from Professor Remington's family, and mem-
bers thereof. To enter that home is like entering one's own, be-
cause of the whole-souled hospitality of each and every member.
To this it may be added that Professor Remington's love and affec-
tion for his wife and children, as shown to his personal friends, is
only paralleled by a reciprocity from themselves. Taken all in all,
a very happy and a very charming family is the Remington family
I have in mind.
My dear Mr. Eberle: I feel that this letter is much too long,
and yet its space would be much too short were one to attempt to
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present even the high lights of a biography of Professor Joseph
P. Remington. I have recorded but a touch of what came to me
in the passing along of a discursive letter, as thought crushed upon
thought, event upon event, opportunity close following opportunity
in the direction of what I felt needs be said, and yet for lack of
space, could not be said. Painful though it is to think that I am
writing this letter during what may possibly be the closing period of
the life of this companion and friend, it is yet a melancholy pleasure
to feel that I am not passing the bounds of prudence. All I have
said and more will be felt by others who were more fortunate,
others who were in daily touch with Professor Remington, as it
was not my privilege to be, and who may not, as do I, assume the
responsibility of intruding a personal letter.
Strange how insidiously Time moves us in and out. Of those
close in the companionship of Professor Remington and myself in
days long gone by, very, very few are living.
May I not close this letter with a sentence from “The Code of
Manu ’’-
“As drifting logs of wood may haply meet
On ocean's waters surging to and fro,
And having met, drift once again apart,
So, fleeting, is the intercourse of men.
“E’en as a traveller meeting with the shade
Of some o'erhung tree, awhile reposes,
Then leaves its shelter to pursue his way,
So men meet friends, then part with them forever.”
Sincerely yours,
JOHN URI LLOYD.
CINCINNATI, O., December 29, 1917.
I4 FUNERAL OF PROF. REMINGTON.
THE FUNERAL OF PROFESSOR JOSEPH PRICE
REMINGTON.
Professor Joseph P. Remington’s body was laid in its last rest-
ing place on Friday, January 4, 1918. There was a private service
conducted at his late residence, 1832 Pine Street, by his youngest
son, Rev. Wm. P. Remington, who officiated in the uniform of an
army chaplain.
The public services were held in Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
at 19th and Walnut Streets, and the services here were conducted
by the Rector, Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins. {
The honorary pall-bearers were Dr. Harvey W. Wiley and Sam-
uel L. Hilton, of Washington, D.C.; Dr. William Jay Schieffelin, of
New York; Samuel C. Henry, of Chicago; Joseph L. Lemberger,
of Lebanon; and the following Philadelphians: Prof. Charles H.
LaWall, Prof. Frank X. Moerk, Prof. E. Fullerton Cook, Howard
B. French, Dr. Richard V. Mattison, Dr. Adolph W. Miller, Dr.
Charles A. Weidemann, Warren H. Poley, C. Stanley French,
George B. Evans, George M. Beringer, Joseph W. England, Walter
A. Rumsey, Richard M. Shoemaker, Jacob M. Baer, Aubrey H.
Weightman, Otto W. Osterlund, Prof. Samuel P. Sadtler, William
L. Cliffe, Henry K. Mulford, Edwin M. Boring, Theodore Camp-
bell, Charles Leedom, Jacob S. Beetem, of the College; Morris
Earle, J. W. Townsend, Samuel Hinds Thomas, William West
Frazier, Henry H. Collins, George R. Yarrow, Carroll S. Tyson,
Charles F. Gummey, Dr. John B. Roberts, Carl N. Martin and C. C.
Morris, of Holy Trinity. Church.
The coffin was carried down the center aisle of the church upon
the shoulders of four young men and deposited in front of the
chancel, the railing of which was banked with many handsome
floral tributes from friends and organizations all over the United
States.
The vested choir sang some of Professor Remington’s favorite
hymns during the service, which was the brief, beautiful and im-
pressive one of the Episcopal Church. That part of the service
usually conducted at the grave was completed in the church. The
interment was private and was attended by only the members of
the family and four of the closest friends from among the honorary
pall-bearers. The burial took place in the Friends' Burying Ground
amº
MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON. I 5
just across Cobb's Creek, a short distance south of Market Street.
No services were held at the grave but just as the body was being
lowered into its last resting place, his son, Rev. Wm. P. Remington,
stepped to the head of the grave and offered a beautiful prayer.
The only flowers accompanying the body to the grave were those
presented by the Faculty of the College. All of the others were sent
to various hospitals in the city, to bring joy to the sick and suffering.
This was in recognition of a practice which he was known to favor.
THE MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR
REMINGTON.1
A very impressive memorial meeting to Professor Joseph Price
Remington, dean of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, who
died January 1, 1918, was held January 4, immediately after the
funeral services, in the library of the college he loved so well and
in whose service he spent so many years of his life. The room was
filled with the Philadelphia friends, associates and former students
of the dean, and a surprisingly large number of men from other
cities, considering the weather and the condition of the train service.
Men prominent in all pharmaceutical activities paid tribute to the
memory of this international figure in pharmacy, either personally
or by telegram and letter. These tributes were sincere and came
from the heart, as the emotion of the speakers testified.
The meeting was called to order promptly at 3 o'clock by Presi-
dent Howard B. French, who said: -
This meeting has been called as a memorial meeting to the
late Professor Joseph Price Remington. The college held a special
meeting on Tuesday, January 2, and adjourned until to-day, so that
due and proper honor could be paid to the memory of one of the
greatest pharmacists that ever lived.” He then asked the secretary
of the college, Dr. C. A. Weidemann, to read a letter received from
Mr. George M. Befinger, chairman of the board of trustees, who
was prevented from being present by a broken ankle, the result of
an accident.
Mr. Beringer's letter was as follows:
In the midst of the overshadowing sorrow at the passing away
1 Prepared by Mrs. Charles H. LaWall.
I6 MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON.
of this illustrious friend and foremost American pharmacist, my
thoughts revert to that time, nearly forty years ago, when I entered
the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy as a student and came under
the tuition of that trio of master teachers, Professors Maisch, Rem-
ington and Sadtler. Each of these, by a personality as noteworthy
as their ability, won the esteem and affection of their students.
The moral influence that Professor Remington during the last
fifty years has exercised in molding the characters and lives of his
numerous students, while imparting to them technical and pro-
fessional instruction, has been no small part of his life's work. The
value of this preceptorship can be attested by many pharmacists
and by their example this influence will continue to extend to the
oncoming generations of pharmacists.
In later years as a member of the college and as a trustee
thereof and especially as the chairman of the committee on instruc-
tion, it was my privilege to become more closely allied with him
and better acquainted with his work as a teacher and his services
as the dean. Likewise, in the American Pharmaceutical Associa-
tion and as a member of the Committee of Revision of the Pharma-
copoeia of the United States, our interviews were frequent and our
correspondence voluminous. In these I often obtained a closer
view of the character and determination of Professor Remington
and learned of his remarkable knowledge of men and their mental
peculiarities. Above all, I learned of his ability as a leader, which
enabled him to enthuse others and obtain their best efforts.
It was this latter qualification that made him so successful as
chairman of the committee of revision of the Pharmacopoeia. In
the Eighth and Ninth Decennial Revisions of the U. S. P., we have
an established record of his efficiency as chairman, and the progress
made and the advanced scientific standing of these revisions can be
very largely attributed to the ability and indefatigable efforts of the
chairman.
Following the illustrious examples of Procter and Parrish,
Professor Remington nobly carried on the work that they had com-
menced and has established the teaching of pharmacy on a solid
foundation. His monumental literary works, “The Practice of
Pharmacy” and the pharmacy of the United States Dispensatory,
mark his preeminent position as an author in this, his chosen field.
Professor Remington has left a record replete with accomplishments
for pharmacy.
MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON. 17
To know him was but to admire; to work with him was an
inspiration, and to carry on his plans for the advancement of
pharmacy becomes now a sacred duty. GEORGE M. BERINGER.
CAMDEN, N. J., January 4, 1918.
Resolutions from the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association
were read as follows:
The PENNSYLVANIA PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION, through
the undersigned committee, begs leave to present the following
resolutions to the Memorial Meeting in honor of
Professor Joseph Price Remington
at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, January 4, 1918.
WHEREAs our Heavenly Father has called from our midst
Joseph Price Remington, one of the founders and a former Presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association, and
WHEREAs, Professor Remington, through his loyalty and devo-
tion to the interests of pharmacy generally and the Pennsylvania
Pharmaceutical Association in particular, endeared himself to all
of our members, and
WHEREAS it is felt that pharmacy, through his passing away,
has lost one of its greatest men who, as a teacher, author, associa-
tion worker and adviser, left the impress of his character with
thousands of students, pharmacists, chemists, physicians and other
men of affairs; therefore, be it
Resolved that the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association
expresses its keenest regret and sorrow at his passing and extends
the sincerest sympathy to the members of his family in their hour
of sorrow ; and be it further
Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the
minutes of the Association, and a copy be sent to the members of
his family.
\ W. H. KNOEPFEL, Scranton, President,
J. A. Koch, Pittsburgh,
W. L. CLIFFE, Philadelphia,
J. L. LEMBERGER, Lebanon,
C. C. CAMPBELL, Pittsburgh,
Respectfully submitted,
(Signed) ROBERT P. FISCHELIS,
Secretary.
1 S MIEMORIAL MEETING TO TROFESSOR REM INGTON.
Then followed the reading of the resolutions prepared by a com-
mittee appointed by the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, pre-
sented by Joseph W. England, chairman of the committee.
IN MEMORIAM Joseph PRICE REMINGTON, 1847–1918.
WHEREAs, In the demise of Joseph Price Remington, American
pharmacy has lost its foremost figure and the Philadelphia College
of Pharmacy its most distinguished son, therefore be it
Resolved, that we, the members of the Philadelphia College
of Pharmacy, in special meeting assembled, express our deep sorrow
at his passing and pay tribute to his work and worth.
As a pharmacist, he labored in all the branches of pharma-
ceutical practice, retail, wholesale and manufacturing, acquiring an
unusually wide experience. He was graduated from the Phila-
delphia College of Pharmacy in 1866, the subject of his thesis being
“Our Alma Mater, Its Rise and Progress,” little dreaming, perhaps,
that he was destined to become a most important factor in its de-
velopment during the next fifty years.
As an educator, he was trained by Edward Parrish and Wil-
liam Procter, Jr., two of the greatest pharmacists that American
pharmacy produced in the last century. In 1874 he was elected to
the chair of theory and practice of pharmacy of his alma mater,
later becoming also professor of operative pharmacy and director
of the pharmaceutical laboratory (1877) and then dean of the
college (1803). He has taught thousands of students. He was an
impressive teacher, presenting his subjects in a logical and practical
manner; his language was clear and forcible and his voice distinct
and penetrating. He had a magnetic personality and his lectures
made a deep and lasting impression. He was the students’ friend,
beloved by all. He may have been said to have been a teacher of
teachers, for most of the successful teachers of pharmacy in
America to-day have been pupils of his at some time in their careers.
Not only this, but he exercised a potential influence upon phar-
maceutical education, generally, being most active in developing
many improvements and important changes in methods of teach-
ing. His method of instruction in operative pharmacy led to the
creation of a pharmaceutical laboratory in the Philadelphia College
of Pharmacy, the first of its kind in this country, the essential
features of which have been adopted by nearly all of the colleges
MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON. I9
of pharmacy in the United States, and he was the first to visualize
the importance and necessity of teaching commercial pharmacy in
schools of pharmacy and to establish such a course.
As an author of pharmaceutical textbooks, he had a national
and international reputation. He was the author of the ‘Practice
of Pharmacy, first issued in 1885, used in every college of pharmacy
in this country, and widely known abroad, the associate editor of
the United States Dispensatory since 1879, the fifteenth edition of
which was published in 1883. This edition and the later ones
have proved to be the most successful ever issued. Prior to 1883,
the work was edited entirely by physicians; since then American
pharmacy has been honored by having placed upon the title page
of this book the name of a pharmacist as one of its editors and has
been properly recognized in its relation to medicine.
As a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association he
was most active. Joining in 1867, he served the Association in
many capacities, being a regular attendant at the annual meetings,
taking a leading part in the discussions and presenting papers on
many important subjects, as the volumes of the Proceedings and
Journal since 1868 bear ample testimony. His good judgment and
safe advice were constantly in demand. He was chairman of many
important committees. He proposed the plan which was adopted
for the establishment of the council in 1880 and was its chairman
for seven years. In 1887, he elaborated a plan for the reorganiza-
tion of the Association, dividing the scientific work into sections, and
secured its adoption. He was president in 1892–93 and permanent
secretary in 1893–94. -
In 1887, the American Pharmaceutical Association appointed
him as a delegate to visit the American Medical Association, and
he induced that Association to establish a section of materia medica
and pharmacy, which has since become the Section of Pharmacology
and Therapeutics. He was chairman of delegations subsequently
sent to this Association, and on such occasions rendered valuable
service in bringing the professions of medicine and pharmacy into
closer relationship.
Not only in national pharmaceutical affairs was he active, but
he took a deep interest in the growth and development of state asso-
ciations, frequently attending their annual meetings, making ad-
dresses and presenting papers. He was one of the charter members
2O MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON.
of the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association in 1878 and its
president in 1890.
As an executive and leader of men he had international fame.
He was president of the Seventh International Pharmaceutical Con-
gress (1893), a delegate to the Pan-American Medical Congress
(1893) and to the Second Congress in Mexico (1896); represented
the United States in the Eighth International Pharmaceutical Con-
gress at Brussels (1896) and was president of the Pharmaceutical
Section of the Eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry
(1912). He received the honorary degree of Master in Pharmacy
from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and from the North-
western University of Illinois the honorary degree of Doctor of
Pharmacy, Phar.D. He was a Fellow of the Chemical, the
Linnaean and the Royal Microscopical Societies of Great Britain;
honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Gesellschaft zu St. Peters-
burg, Institute Medica Nacional of Mexico, Societé Royal de Phar-
macie de Bruxelles, Societé de Pharmacie d’Anvers; an active
member of the Philosophical Society, American Chemical Society,
American Geographical Society, Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia, Historical Society of Pennsylvania; honorary member
of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, British Pharma-
ceutical Conference; member of the Federatione Internationale
Pharmaceutique of The Hague, Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia,
Chemists’ Club of New York and Authors’ Club of London.
But his greatest work probably was as chairman of the com-
mittee of revision of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States of
America, a work which has become of vast importance by reason
of its legal standing under the Federal and State Food and Drug
Acts. His connection with the U. S. Pharmacopoeia began in 1877,
when he served on an auxiliary committee of revision. In 1880,
I890, and 1900 he was sent as a delegate of the Philadelphia Col-
lege of Pharmacy to the national conventions and in these served
as first vice-chairman of the final committee of revision. Upon
the death of the chairman of the committee in 1901, Professor
Remington was made chairman, and was again elected in 1910,
holding the position until his death. The Ninth Revision, issued in
1916, may be truly called his monument, since the whole work is
stamped with his personality.
As a man, ‘we ne'er shall look upon his like again.’ ‘Genial,
MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON. 2 I
eloquent, clean-hearted and clear-minded,’ possessed of unusual
natural ability coupled with rare executive capacity, he served his
day and generation, loyally and enthusiastically, and left a record
of achievement that may well serve as an example to future
generations.
Just a personal note: Professor Remington was gifted with a
charming personality. His courtesy, his tact, his ability to adapt
himself to all types of people, made friends of all those he met,
while his strong, clean intellect served to inspire them. The mean-
ing of his departure from life may be expressed in the following
lines from S. Weir Mitchell’s beautiful poem, ‘Evening':
“I know the night is now at hand,
The mists lie low on hill and bay,
The autumn sheaves are dewless, dry,
But I have had the day.
Yes, I have had, dear Lord, the day:
When at Thy call I have the night,
Brief be the twilight as I pass
From light to dark, from dark to light.”
Resolved, that this appreciation be entered upon the minutes
of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and a copy sent to the
family of the deceased.
J. W. ENGLAND, Chairman,
SAMUEL P. SADTLER,
CHARLES H. LAWALL,
JULIUS STURMER,
HARRY K. MULFORD,
Committee.
PHILADELPHIA, January 4, 1918.
After the reading of the above resolutions of the College, the
president announced that a motion to adopt was in order. Pro-
fessor Eberle moved an amendment, as follows:
I would like to move a recognition of the appropriate words
in which these resolutions have been presented and that we acknowl-
edge the sentiments as our own views by a rising vote.
The motion was unanimously carried by a rising vote.
The following are the resolutions adopted and presented by the
Faculty of the College:
2 2. MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON.
& PHILADELPHIA, January 4, 1918.
At a meeting of the faculty of the Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy held this day, the following resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
WHEREAs, Providence has seen fit to end the earthly career
of one of our number and has taken from our midst our beloved
associate, Professor Joseph P. Remington, our senior member, and
one endeared to us all by years of association, we would
Resolve that we hereby express our sense of the loss which is
brought home to us personally as his associates, assistants, and
colleagues of many years, during which his friendship, counsel and
kindly help were constantly at our command.
We would also express our sense of the great loss which the
College has suffered in the death of one who was not only its most
distinguished alumnus, but who stood for years as a tower of
strength, as its most eminent representative among the educational
forces of the pharmaceutical profession.
Not only did he, as a pharmaceutical author and writer, do
credit to our institution throughout the world by the international
reputation he developed, but he worked incessantly as official and
unofficial delegate and visitor to further the interests of pharma-
ceutical education and advancement, as illustrated in the work of
our College.
We would also call to mind the sense of loss which will be
felt by hundreds of his former students to whom he was not merely
a memory but had continued a personal friend and frequent helper
and advisor. t
Resolved that we tender to his family our deep sympathy in
their hour of bereavement and express the hope that they be com-
forted by the belief that he has gone to his eternal reward.
(Signed) SAMUEL P. SADTLER,
CLEMENT B. Lowe,
FRANK X. MoERK,
Committee.
President French then called on various friends and associates
to give expression to their appreciation of and esteem for Professor
Remington, the first being Professor Emeritus Samuel P. Sadtler,
who has been connected with the college for many years and asso-
ciated with Professor Remington in many activities. He spoke as
follows:
MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON. 23
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, Friends of the College, Friends
of the late Professor Remington: It is, of course, a very personal
and therefore a very hard matter for me to talk this afternoon. I
became acquainted with Joseph Price Remington first in 1878, when
I was called here to assist the late Dr. Bridges in the lectures on
chemistry. We became very intimately acquainted, shortly there-
after, as we both worked from 1880 on at the U. S. Dispensatory,
and from that time our association was very close and we came to
know each other very well. Independently of that work, our con-
stant association in the teaching work of the College and later on
the U. S. P. Revision Committee brought us into closer contact. All
this threw me constantly into association with him. Therefore I
feel a great personal loss. The feeling of that loss will be a re-
current one, not to-day alone, but repeatedly.
I want to speak more particularly of the loss which this college
and pharmacy generally will sustain in the death of Professor Rem-
ington. He was not only the most widely known and honored pro-
fessor of this college and the dean of the college, but we may
properly say that he took the whole burden of looking after the
name and interests of the college throughout the world. Wherever
pharmacists were gathered he was looked upon as the typical repre-
sentative of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. His loss will be
felt, not only to-day, but through succeeding years. American
pharmacy has suffered a great loss. Many of the gentlemen here
will testify, from personal knowledge, that he was in touch with
every phase of these varied activities probably more than any other
man in the United States, not only in the teaching of pharmacy but
in presenting pharmacy and its achievements to the public, and
later in making up that great summary of pharmaceutical teaching
for the medical and pharmaceutical professions, the United States
Pharmacopoeia, which has moreover, since the passage of the Food
and Drug Act, become the legal standard for the purity of drugs
and medicinal preparations. The work that he did on the U. S.
Dispensatory and his own ‘Practice of Pharmacy,” beginning in
1883, must also be remembered.
In all of these lines he was active and foremost, taking the
work of several men on his own shoulders. He had reached the
age of three score and ten and any years that remained after that
must be considered as a gift of Providence. While he could not
24 MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON.
have continued to work with the same energy it would have been
well if he could have been spared as a counsellor. Of course, when
people reach that age we do not expect much more of activity, but
the man who retains his faculties can be a valuable aid and adviser
to younger men.
I have said that I have a sense of personal loss and I have
tried to point out the loss which the profession of pharmacy and the
teaching of pharmacy will experience in his death. We shall only
begin to realize this as succeeding years roll by. -
President French then said: You will pardon the chair for
giving a personal experience. My first acquaintance with Professor
Remington started in 1855 or 56. Possibly I have known him
longer than anyone in this room, as we started our friendship play-
ing together as boys. -
His loyalty to the college has always been an inspiration to me
and for many years we have worked together for the benefit of
this old institution. He and I looked forward with great interest
to the centenary of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, which
will take place in March, 1921.
I presume that I have been connected with this institution
possibly as long, or perhaps longer than any man living to-day—50
years last October; and during this association and connection I
came into close contact with Professor Remington, and I have
learned to respect and honor him. He was a strong character,
firmly believing that he was doing the best, by his devotion to the
college, for pharmaceutical learning throughout the world. His loss
to us is a serious one and I realize what a burden has fallen upon
the shoulders of those who are left. We shall have to do our best
to follow his example and emulate the loyalty he so frequently
expressed for the institution.
He then called upon the following to pay tribute to Professor
Remington in the order given: -
Professor J. W. Sturmer, Associate Dean of the College:
PROFESSOR REMINGTON, THE TEACHER.
Man is a bundle of many attributes—some of them reciprocally
synergistic, some of them seemingly incompatible; and while it may
be difficult to sum up a great man's work in a few brief words, it
is more difficult still to explain how he achieved his results and to
MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON. 25
name those personal characteristics of his which made them pos-
sible. But it is not my purpose to marshal in review the many
achievements of Professor Remington and to disclose the secret
of his success. I desire merely—with a sad heart—to lay my humble
twig of laurel upon his grave.
And I will speak, Mr. Chairman, of Professor Remington, the
teacher, for whatever else he was and whatever else he accom-
plished, he was primarily and fundamentally a teacher, a teacher
of the first rank. What qualifications are necessary to a great
teacher? We are informed that a teacher of pharmacy should have
acquired a certain sum of knowledge, should have attained to cer-
tain scholastic degrees. But a pool of water, even though it be a
large one, does not necessarily constitute water power; and a man
who is a great reservoir of knowledge is not necessarily a great
teacher. Professor Remington was a great teacher because he
possessed, in addition to the requisite learning, that fine altruistic
spirit which made him desirous to help others, to give, to give to
his students of his knowledge, of his time, of his energy. of his
wisdom. Further, he had a keen insight into human nature. He
understood men, knew the youthful mind, could sense the attitude
of his classes. He appreciated that students are not uniform units
which could be dealt with en masse, but that each represented a
distinct individual, a distinct personality. Hence his great success
in establishing those cordial relations, indeed personal friendships,
which did not cease with the students’ college days. When I–a
youth of twenty-one—had been appointed an assistant in a distant
university, my preceptor, a graduate of this college, told me about
a visit he had just paid to his former teacher, Professor Remington,
who received him with a warmth of welcome which came from the
heart and which made of this visit an instance to be treasured in the
memory. ‘Young man’ Said my preceptor, “make your students
like you, as Professor Remington makes his students like him, and
you will succeed as a teacher.” A strange coincidence, that fortune
associated me on the same faculty, during the past few years of his
life, with the great teacher who had been pointed out as an exemplar.
Nature had endowed Professor Remington splendidly. He
had a commanding presence, a clear, pleasing voice, and a smile
which was infectious. In his discourses, he ran the gamut of
didactic exposition, humorous anecdotes, and thrilling bursts of im-
passioned oratory.
26 MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON.
Is it any wonder that he was a great energizing force, a
catalytic agent, who stimulated his students to study and to work,
not only during their college days, but for life? And to-day, thou-
sands of his graduates throughout this broad land are performing
worth while work in this work-a-day world, dispensing, compound-
ing, manufacturing, inventing, writing, teaching.
What Huxley did for biology and Tyndal for physical science,
Professor Remington did for pharmaceutical science; he popularized
it, gave it a human interest, gave it life.
His activities have now ceased; he has laid away the crayon
and the pointer of the class room and folded his hands for the long,
mysterious rest. But the fruits of his labors will grow through the
years. As long as illness and pain are the common portion of the
sons of men, there will be need for the makers of medicine.
Pharmacy therefore, will endure, and so will also the fame of its
great teacher—Professor Joseph Price Remington.
Dr. Harvey. W. Wiley, President of the U. S. Pharmacopoeial
Convention spoke as follows:
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am here in two capaci-
ties to-day. I am here to represent, first of all, the Pharmacopoeial
Convention and the board of trustees thereof, and secondly, in my
private capacity. I want to speak first of Professor Remington's
work in a professional way. I think very few of you realize, except
those who have worked with him, the magnitude of the work which
he undertook. Fortunately, he came to the Ninth Revision with a
very valuable experience which he gained in the Eighth Revision,
so that he was the ideal person to head the great revision committee,
both in professional ability and experience. I learned a great deal
of the magnitude of the work during the past eight years, and I
have often wondered how he could physically and mentally endure
the great strain that was placed upon him. He did not. I doubt
not at all that his death was very much hastened by his labor on the
Ninth Decennial Revision. But he would not withhold his hand in
fear of death, although I have asked him to do so, because, in my
opinion, he considered the one place to die, of all others, is in
harness, and if Professor Remington had known that he could have
prolonged his life by declining the burden. I am sure he would not
have done so. As I look back upon the last eight years, I have more
MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON. 27
and more come to realize that Professor Remington was the great
stabilizer. You know they are using the gyroscope now to stabilize
ships upon the sea. The tendency of the gyroscope is to remain,
by reason of inertia, in statu quo, and when it revolves it remains
in that position and it takes great force to push it aside, one way or
the other; so if you have a gyroscope in full action it will hold the
ship in position.
The effect that Dr. Remington had upon the great work of
revision was that of the gyroscope. He held it true to its course,
and no one knows more than I the forbearance he had to exercise
to hold it so. There were very many intricate questions to decide,
and if there had been a man of less ability than Professor Reming-
ton at the helm, he could not have steered the ship clear of all
dangers and brought the revision committee through. That alone
stamped him as a man of great character and force. No one who
took any part in these deliberations would fail to recognize his strong
guiding power and resistance to pressure.
One of our great authors, Emerson, I think it was, has de-
scribed character as the grass, which is flexible and not firm; every
wind moves it. As it grows up it will not yield as it did before.
So with human character. It is not so much education and heredity,
but the result of experience, and when guided by a heart which is
always true and a brain which is always clear, every experience of
life builds character. No wonder that Professor Remington ap-
proached the end of his life with such a character; his great care
was always to avoid the wrong and uphold the right. This is the
view I have gained of him during the years of association with him.
One of his great monuments is the Ninth Revision of the U.
S. Pharmacopoeia. It is his book. Louis XIV spoke of the state
and said ‘C'est moi’—‘It is I.’ So, in speaking of the U. S.
Pharmacopoeia, we can say ‘C'est lui'—‘It is he.’ And so, as the
official head of the organization which produced this book, I have
come to pay tribute to his memory.
“That I can do rather easily, but when I come to the second
part of my theme I feel it almost impossible to say what I should
like to say, and that is about Professor Remington as a friend. I
have known him considerably over a third of a century. His was
a. friendship which grew upon one, as one knew more and more his
Worth and loyalty, and I could have shown no better illustration of
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my friendship than in the christening of my first boy. My wife
kindly permitted me to choose the godfathers and I chose Joseph P.
Remington and John Uri Lloyd, and I am glad to know that my boy,
now approaching his sixth year, will realize (he does realize now)
his loss at the death of his godfather and realize it more and more
as he grows older. What a blessing he had in two such godfathers!
There is nothing in my personal history that I prize more than that
event. And so I have learned to prize Remington more and more
as the years go by.
I do not quite agree with Professor Sadtler in saying that when
a man is seventy, he perhaps is not of much more use in life. If I
had quit at seventy I would not be here to-day; I am seventy-four.
I feel that it is hardly a compensation for our loss to think of Pro-
fessor Remington as having lived his whole life. No good man ever
lives his whole life. The old adage says that the good die young.
I have seen a clever addition to that saying—‘The good die young,
no matter how long they live,’ and Remington would have died
young had he lived to a century, because he had in him the spring
of eternal youth. No man grows old whose heart is young. The
beautiful words of one of your local poets, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell,
have already been quoted here, and may I return to one of my
friends of 2000 years ago in endeavoring to express to you the
feeling I have to-day? The old Latin poet said ‘Nil ego contulerim
jucundo Sanus amico’—‘As long as I am in my right mind I shall
never prefer anything to a delightful friend’; and so I say that as
long as I am in my right mind I shall never prefer anything to the
delight I have had in the association with this friend.
Prof. J. A. Koch, dean of the Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy
said:
I have come to pay tribute to the memory of my friend, Pro-
fessor Remington. I do not know when I first met him, but I do
remember when I first learned to know him. It was here in this
building, twenty years ago, just after I first took up my duties at the
Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy. I came to see Professor Rem-
ington and the advice he gave me and the goodness of heart with
which he took up my case were overwhelming. I have, from that
time on, felt that I had in him a friend. It has been my good
fortune to meet him very frequently and I was especially fortunate
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in being able, in 1913, to spend seven weeks with him when we were
together as delegates to the International Pharmaceutical Congress
from the American Pharmaceutical Association, and I then learned
to know him as I never would have learned to know him in any
other way. I felt very much pleased to think that he liked me and
liked to have me with him; that was what he told me. I feel very
proud of that. I have simply come to pay tribute to his memory
and to mourn with you your loss.
Mr. J. L. Lemberger, Lebanon, vice-president of the Philadelphia
College of Pharmacy:
I have had in my heart the last few days a feeling of the
greatest sadness of my life, the parting with my dear friend, Pro-
fessor Remington. We had known each other intimately for
perhaps thirty years or more. We were as intimate as two brothers
almost. I had his confidence in many things; he had my confidence
in many things. There was but one side to Professor Remington—
he was all around right. He was moved to do right by a con-
scientious desire to do so. Can I say anything better of our de-
parted friend? I knew him well enough to know that it was a
principle of his life.
In the many things we had in common, American Pharma-
ceutical Association, Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association, this
dear old college, our alma mater, when we came to sift down to
what we would call the bottom facts of the thing (his name is
Joseph and my name is Joseph; we knew each other as “Joe”), our
conclusion always was, ‘Joe, we must do right in this matter.” Can
we have a pleasanter memory of a good man than to think of him
as having been conscientious in all matters of life, moved by a desire
to do right?
“I went out to the cemetery and looked into the open grave and
said ‘Farewell’; not good-bye forever, but “Farewell.’ The memory
of his life will come to me every time I enter this college and every
time I go to an association meeting, and we shall think of Reming-
ton; what a great delight it will be to have such a memory of a
friend. He lived a good life, a useful life, and he had a joyous
disposition, a magnetic disposition. He filled the room with his
presence, whether in the college or in the circle of that dear home
of his. His end came peacefully indeed, very peacefully. His end
k.
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was such as we might desire to be ours, when the time comes, and
a hallowed thought is ‘May our lives be as fruitful as his was;
when we come to the end may our end be as was his.' We think of
him now, not as a loss to us, but as living on, on, on, in that world,
where ‘Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither has it entered into
the heart of man to conceive, the joy that our dear Brother Rem-
ington is now enjoying.
Prof. H. V. Arny, professor of organic chemistry in the New
York College of Pharmacy:
Mr. Chairman: I am here in more than one capacity, not merely
in the rôle of a student mourning the loss of his great teacher, but
also as the official representative of the New York College of
Pharmacy. Dean Rusby asked me to express particularly to the
sister institution the profound feeling of sympathy in the loss of
your dean and the great regret that his college duties prevented him
from coming himself. I wish, however, to particularly emphasize
the feeling of personal loss. In Mr. Beringer’s letter, mention was
made of the great triumvirate of teachers; I will add a fourth to the
list—Maisch, Sadtler, Remington and Trimble. These four men, I
think, exercised a greater influence upon pharmacy than any other
four men ever did, standing as disciples not only of true pharmacy,
but also of sceince, and of these four there was none that we
recognize as greater than our departed friend. I will even go so
far as to say that all the success I have had in teaching I attribute
very largely to Professor Remington. I owe him a debt of eternal
gratitude. He had a way of taking a dry fact and of connecting it
with an anecdote that impressed it on the mind, as no other teacher
I know of could do. It has been my privilege to hear many great
teachers, but in my opinion, there was none superior to Professor
Remington as far as beauty of diction or interest is concerned.
My heart is too heavy to say more, except that it is not merely
as a teacher, but as a personal friend of Professor Remington that
I wish to say a word. He was always courteous, even when he
differed from a man; he was always the same sweet, gentle, kindly
man. I am here chiefly as a mourner; I have lost one of the dearest
and best of friends.
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Mr. Samuel L. Hilton of Washington, D. C., treasurer of the
board of trustees of the U. S. Pharmacopoeial Convention:
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: It was my privilege
some thirty years ago to become acquainted with Professor Rem-
ington. I now consider it a privilege to have the opportunity to pay
tribute to his memory. The acquaintance of such a man was an
inspiration to me. It led me to follow his advice, his counsel, and
to look upon many subjects from the point of view of what is
right and what is wrong, so that I feel I made few mistakes in con-
sidering questions pertaining to pharmaceutical subjects when I
looked upon them from the viewpoint of Remington.
I have been associated with him in various kinds of work for
years. We frequently called on each other and I have learned to
love him. In the loss of Professor Remington, American pharmacy
has lost its brightest light. It has lost a man who has done more
for the advancement of pharmacy than any other man for the past
twenty-five years. My heart is full; I do not possess the words
that are necessary. There is no one in American pharmacy for
whom I had greater respect.
On many occasions I have called at this institution to seek his
advice and I have always found him correct and wise in his judg-
ment. I have differed with him and he has always taken it in the
proper spirit. This is an occasion when every one connected with
pharmacy feels his loss. In U. S. P. work during the last two
decades, Professor Remington has been the man upon whom every-
one in connection with that work has depended. Dr. Wiley has said
that he had the faculty of bringing divergent views together in a
way that was best for medicine and pharmacy. Is there any higher
tribute that can be paid to the memory of Professor Remington?
His name will go down in history with that of Procter and Maisch.
Mr. Caswell A. Mayo, editor of the American Druggist, New
York:
For many years it has been my great privilege to have known
Professor Remington. I knew him first as a teacher. I came here,
a callow youth, from the state of Mississippi, with a little knowledge
of pharmacy and science, called here by the great reputation my
alma mater enjoyed as a teacher of men. I think that Professor
Remington had, to an extent which I have never seen equaled,
the peculiar capacity which is required of a successful teacher.
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Many teachers are wise, many have many attainments, but no
ability to inspire in their students that zeal for study, that desire
to avail themselves of all the opportunities which the institution
offers, which he possessed in so eminent a degree. I think one of
the best monuments of his life is in the teachers he taught. Others
have spoken of him as being preeminently a teacher of teachers.
I think there is hardly an institution of pharmacy in the United
States where you will not find teachers made by him.
After I had progressed somewhat in my pharmaceutical career,
I became an observer of men, and next a critic and writer. In the
latter capacity I had an opportunity to study Professor Remington's
work in every phase. As an editor he was remarkably successful.
One of his peculiar characteristics was brought out in a conversa-
tion which I had with him about his new ‘Practice of Pharmacy.’
He had been very kind to me and knowing that I was going into
journalism, was discussing the various phases of it, and said, ‘Now,
Mayo, I have been criticized and people said that I did not write the
“Practice of Pharmacy,” but that A. B. Taylor wrote it. A man’s
personal capacity is limited; he must enlist the intelligent coöpera-
tion of other men if he wants to make a success. The Philadelphia
idea (this was thirty years ago) has been that a man does not do a
thing if he does not actually do it with his own hands. It is a mis-
take, he must do it with his brains. My book is a success inasmuch
as I have directed the making of it.’
He has had throughout his life the faculty of directing and
showed it in a remarkable degree in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. As
an association worker I became associated with him, and I have
always been impressed by his quality of being a stabilizer, as Dr.
Wiley says. I have heard, at meetings, the most bitter vituperation
and people have come to the pass when they called each other names.
Professor Remington would step in and stabilize the discussion and
point out the moderate ground where all could meet, in a way that
would lead the entire discussion, by his superior insight, into the
real crux of the questions. I have seen him in his home, his de-
lightful home, especially at Longport. He had a genius for friend-
ship. I only wish that my words were equal to my thoughts and
my disposition to do justice to him. As a teacher he was un-
equaled; as an association worker he was the great organizer; as
an editor he was careful, accurate and painstaking; as a friend he
was kind, cordial and helpful.
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Dr. H. C. Wood, Jr., vice-chairman of the U. S. P. committee
of revision, Philadelphia:
My father was an associate and friend of Professor Reming-
ton and I cannot remember the time when I did not know Professor
Remington. I have seen him at various associations and I have
wondered at his diplomatic skill in difficult situations, to which Mr.
Mayo has referred. I have read his books and have sat at his feet
and have marveled at the breadth of his scientific knowledge. I
have visited in his home and have been charmed by his genius for
hospitality. I have had the privilege of working with him for
fifteen years on the U. S. Dispensatory and have more recently been
associated with him in the work of the U. S. P. revision committee—
privileges which I highly esteem. He was a great educator, states-
man, scientist and friend. He is not gone; his spirit remains with
us and will remain to inspire us as long as we are left.
Prof. E. G. Eberle, editor of the Journal of the American
Pharmaceutical Association, Philadelphia:
It is difficult to speak of Professor Remington now ; he is too
near for the full worth of the man to appear. We who have known
him intimately for many years have suffered a bereavement that we
cannot speak of in words that are adequate, but time will bring this
loss into evidence. What now might seem fulsome eulogy will be
found insufficient to wholly express the true character and inex-
pressible loss to pharmacy by his death.
Frederick M. Davenport said, ‘Let none suppose that any
crowd of American college boys ever sat for one year or two years
at the feet of a college professor without knowing the substance of
that man. There is nothing human that I know of so near infallible
as the final estimate that college men put upon an instructor.”
The graduates of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, with
few, if any, exceptions, revere Professor Remington; there are not
very many teachers who retain the continued friendship of the
alumni as did Professor Remington. I knew him as a teacher and
almost adored him, and soon after my graduation it fell to my lot
to be associated with him in one way or another, and I greatly re-
spected him; further years brought me into closer touch and I
loved him as a friend.
At this time we can speak of him best by a survey of his
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activities, his relations with others, his leadership in pharmaceutical
endeavor, which will give us a more unbiased judgment of the man
than personal expressions that may be influenced by our deep sorrow.
For half a century Professor Remington was identified with the de-
velopment of pharmacy and during many years of this time, on
account of his prominence, he was subject to the most critical judg-
ment of his confreres and collaborators, and he stood the qualify-
ing test of a competent leader and great man, which speaks more
than any encomium possibly could.
Professor Remington was genial, most hospitable, amiable, for-
giving. His happy humor, his kind and loving sentiments added
charm to his wise, practical thoughts. A great American pharma-
cist has left our ranks; we have profited by his works and endured
a loss by his death which will be more deeply recognized as time
passes.
Dr. F. E. Stewart, chairman of the committee appointed from
the Philadelphia Branch of the American Pharmaceutical Associa-
tion, read the resolutions from that body, as follows:
IN MEMORIAM
WHEREAS, Almighty God, in his eternal wisdom, has taken
from our midst our beloved brother, Professor Joseph Price Rem-
ington, we, the members of the Philadelphia Branch of the Ameri-
can Pharmaceutical Association, express our deep sorrow at his loss,
Professor Remington, whose death we mourn, was an inter-
national figure in the pharmaceutical circles of the world; in his
death, pharmacy has lost its most prominent chieftain. As presi-
dent of the American Pharmaceutical Association and one of the
founders of the Philadelphia Branch; as president of the Penn-
Sylvania Pharmaceutical Association; as chairman of many im-
portant delegations; as a member of numerous scientific bodies in
this country and abroad; as professor of pharmacy in the Phila-
delphia College of Pharmacy and for many years its dean; as
author of “Remington's Pharmacy,’ a textbook wherever pharmacy
is taught; as chairman of the committee of revision of the United
States Pharmacopoeia; as joint author with Professors Sadtler and
Wood of the United States Dispensatory, he occupied a position of
unique distinction and influence. No man left a more helpful im-
MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON. 35
pression upon the pharmacy of the entire world than Professor
Remington. In foreign countries, when the king dies the people
cry, “The King is dead; long live the King!' It is for us to cry,
‘The King is dead; who shall reign in his stead?’
Resolved, That we spread this memorial upon the minutes of
the Philadelphia Branch of the American Pharmaceutical Associa-
tion, and send a copy of the same to his family in testimony of our
Sympathy and appreciation. }
(Signed for the Committee)
F. E. STEwART, M.D., Phar.D.,
Chairman.
Dr. Stewart then added his personal appreciation of Professor
Remington in these words:
I desire to express my personal feelings, not only representing
the Philadelphia Branch of the American Pharmaceutical Associa-
tion, but also representing the class of 1876, this class being the one
to which Professor Remington gave his first course of lectures.
During the many years since that time, there has hardly been a
year that I have not had an occasion to personally confer with Pro-
fessor Remington, and I was always received with courtesy and
consideration. His loss is a great blow to us as members of the
college and members of the faculty.
Prof. Charles H. LaWall, Professor Remington's associate in
the department of the theory and practice of pharmacy at the Col-
lege, then spoke as follows:
I am filled with such emotion in consequence of the events
which have preceded this meeting that I can do but feeble justice
to the feelings in my heart at the present time. I have been asso-
ciated with Professor Remington for eighteen years, probably in a
closer way than many of those who have preceded me. I have
worked with him, I have traveled with him, and I have played with
him, because he was one of those few men who knew how to play.
So few men realize that to work well one must also take a certain
amount of recreation. I have learned to know, love and respect him
in a higher degree than I have had a respect and love for and knowl-
edge of any other man in the world. I have been associated with him
in a teaching capacity and during those eighteen years I have been
36 MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON.
a student at his feet, because one could always learn from him; he
had such a boundless fund of information on almost every subject.
They say that he who influences the thought of his own time
influences all eternity. Therefore, we know that the influence of
Joseph P. Remington will go on forever, so long as pharmacy is a
science.
There is another phase of his character that has not been dwelt
upon, and which I knew very well. That is his cleanness of heart
and soul. I never knew a man who had that innocent view of things
for a man of mature years to such a degree as he had. He had that
kind of cleanness that is contagious. I have observed him in gather-
ings of men and I have seen him enter the smoking compartment of
a Pullman car, where sometimes stories are told that are somewhat
risque, and without apparently exercising any conscious influence
on the conversation, direct it into healthful channels, by his personal
magnetism introducing a clean tone into the atmosphere. There-
fore, I have always felt that he exemplified Kipling's phrase “In
simpleness and gentleness, in honor and clean mirth,’ because if
there ever was a man who was clean it was Professor Remington.
So far as his personal magnetism was concerned, everyone
must pay tribute to that; it was his outstanding characteristic. He
had the faculty of making friends of his enemies. ‘Every pilot can
steer the ship in calms but he performs a skilful task who can manage
it in storms.” In piloting an association over the shoals of some
apparently insuperable difficulty or some committee over the reefs
of personal differences, he exercised his powers to the fullest
extent.
Then followed Dr. C. B. Lowe, professor of materia medica at
the college:
I have been pleasantly associated with Professor Remington
for a third of a century, and during that time I have found him a
kind friend whom I shall miss very much. I should like to para-
phrase an author's lines, as follows:
“Dear friend, we’ve lived long together,
Through sunshine and through cloudy weather;
Say not “Good night,”
But in some brighter clime,
Bid me ‘Good morning.’”
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Prof. E. Fullerton Cook, associate director of the pharma-
ceutical laboratory of the college, voiced his appreciation as follows:
In paying tribute to the memory of my friend, Joseph Price
Remington, I need not cite his achievements or his services to
pharmacy. These you know. I might speak of his affable manner,
his keen insight into character and motives, his courage in standing
unwaveringly for what he thought to be right, his infinite pains to
attain perfection in the work in hand, his strong sense of duty when
responsibility was accepted, and of other notable qualities; but these
are to-day builded into permanent record, into this college he loved,
into the U. S. Pharmacopoeia of four decades, into his own publica-
tions, and best of all, into the memories we hold. They speak for
themselves.
The world I wish to give, therefore, is more personal ; the im-
pressions from an intimate relationship of many years, almost as
close as that of father and son. One of the outstanding facts soon
recognized was that Professor Remington was deeply religious.
His Quaker training had left a lasting impression. In deciding
small or large questions, he would frequently speak of ‘waiting for
the voice,” with perfect faith in its right guidance. This belief
powerfully influenced his action and kept it true to high ideals.
Another quality which I believe I may speak of here, espe-
cially since at times he was misunderstood, was the entire absence
of a spirit of revenge. He was not small in his dealings with men.
Yet he was not weak or afraid, for if he believed a policy pursued
by someone or a group of men was not for the best interests of
the profession he did not hesitate to attack it, but he did it openly
and without underhand or political pressure methods. To have it
insinuated that he was unfair or had taken advantage of his posi-
tion, hurt him keenly, and he would frequently go far out of his way
to show special consideration to those who seemed to want to believe
him unfair and in his official positions he voluntarily set for himself
a standard of action which was above reproach and even considered
extreme and unnecessary by Some of those who knew his customs
and convictions.
One of the charms of his personality was his appreciation of
humor and his stories are repeated broadcast, but those who came
into intimate contact with him were soon impressed by the elevated
38 MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON.
and moral plane upon which he kept his stories and his thought.
He never sought nor liked it when tainted and never passed it along.
The passing of this brilliant life has left a vacancy hard to fill,
yet one of his life passions and greatest pleasures has been to teach
others and he went without a fear for the future of pharmacy, for he
knew that thousands all over the world, “his boys,' would carry on
the work he loved. Thus his last and probably greatest lesson to us
is that by giving one's self one may attain immortality.
Dr. S. P. Stout, a graduate of the college, spoke as follows:
I met Professor Remington frequently, especially during col-
lege days, but during the last three or four years I met him as man
to man. The last time I saw him was in his home last spring.
After we had finished our business, I said, ‘I expect to go to war.’
His face lighted up and he said, ‘I would like to go with you.
When I get rid of this “plumbago.” (he jokingly called it that)
perhaps I will be all right again.' I told him I was going in the
Roosevelt Division, and he gave me a wonderful insight into Roose-
velt’s character.
I came to-day because I have a telegram in my pocket direct-
ing me to one of the military camps in a few days. I want to add
my tribute. Such men as he have done and are doing a great deal
to keep the professions of medicine and pharmacy on a high stand-
ard where they belong. President Wilson said we are entering
this war to make the world safe for democracy. These men have
toiled to make the world safe for professional men. There are too
many charlatans and quacks who are trying to make gain out of the
misfortunes of others. Many of you have to-day spoken of Maisch,
Remington, Wood and Trimble. In the immortal words of Lincoln:
‘It is for us, the living, to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take in-
creased devotion to the cause to which they gave the last full measure
of devotion.’
Lastly, Professor F. X. Moerk, professor of analytical chemistry
of the college, paid his tribute to Professor Remington:
My personal knowledge of Professor Remington dates back to
the session of 1880–81, when Mr. Charles F. Kramer, then a senior
student, took me to the college one evening, and I first saw Pro-
MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON. 39
fessor Remington and later Professor Sadtler, the lecturers of the
evening. A few months later, a prescription was brought to the
store in which I was employed, calling for an ointment of unknown
formula, and I was sent to Professor Remington's store at 13th and
Walnut Streets, for information regarding the same. While walk-
ing along I3th Street, my attention was drawn to a gentleman
coming toward me, who I thought might be Professor Remington,
if he had had a full beard. I addressed the gentleman and sure
enough it was he. Upon explaining my errand, he stated that Mr.
Charles Frederick Zeller, his assistant, would be pleased to give me
the desired information.
In the fall of 1881, I entered the college and during my student
career frequently consulted Professor Remington at the college and
at the store and felt that he always took an interest in me. Since
graduation, I have continuously held some position in the college,
but during the past few years, since my appointment as assistant
dean, I have been in close touch with Professor Remington, and
during the many, many conferences which were necessary, not a
harsh or cross word was uttered. I gladly join the other speakers
in paying tribute to one who always upheld the interest of the
college.
After the telegrams given below, which had been received by the
College and Mrs. Remington, were read, the meeting adjourned, with
Sad hearts and a feeling that there was a vacancy in the scheme of
things pharmaceutical that will be felt for many many years to come.
TELEGRAMS RECEIVED BY THE COLLEGE AND MRS. J. P. REMINGTON.
The Secretary of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy: The
President and members of the Nova Scotia Pharmaceutical Society
desire you to convey their sympathy to Professor Remington's
family and friends. We have pleasant recollections of the Pro-
fessor's visit to Halifax a few years ago, when we learned to esteem
his personal qualities as highly as his professional. We unite with
you in mourning his loss.
G. A. BARBRIDGE, Secretary.
President Howard B. French: For the American Conference of
Pharmaceutical Faculties, I express the sympathy of the colleges of
pharmacy in the United States to you and the members of the P. C.
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P., in the death of Professor Remington. He was the most mag-
netic personality of the century in American pharmacy.
HENRY KRAEMER, President.
TO THE FACULTY AND MEMBERS OF THE PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE
OF PHARMACY :
Dear Sirs: I hereby express my sincere sympathy on the death
of your dean, Professor Joseph Price Remington, a man who ex-
emplified pharmacy in the United States as Hager did in Germany,
and who always placed the interest of pharmacy above his own
interest, and whose work will be a living monument to those who
are inclined to follow his footsteps hereafter, and who personally
always practiced and followed the Golden Rule, namely, “Do to
others as you expect to be done by,” and without being vindictive
to those who differed with him at times. In Professor Remington's
death a teacher has been lost who will be very hard to replace.
Again expressing my sincere sympathy, I remain,
Respectfully,
GEORGE DECKER, representing
The German Apothecaries’ Society of New York,
N. Y. State Pharmaceutical Association,
Alumni of the New York College of Pharmacy.
Prof. S. P. Sadtler: Serious illness prevents my leaving.
COBLENTZ.
G. M. Beringer: I regret that indisposition prevents my paying
my respects to the memory of Professor Remington, who was my
tutor in 1873 and my esteemed and respected friend for nearly
forty-five years. His death is a sad loss to the pharmaceutical pro-
fession and to me a personal Sorrow.
SAMUEL W. FAIRCHILD.
Mr. G. M. Beringer: The whole world grieves at the loss of its
greatest pharmacist. The Atlanta College of Pharmacy will re-
main closed on Friday, the day of the funeral, as a token of grief
and sorrow. Have notified all our papers.
GEO. F. PAYNE.
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The Northwestern Branch of the A. Ph. A. express deepest
sympathy in your bereavement.
CHAs. H. Rogers, Minneapolis, Minn.
Mr. Charles H. LaWall: I want to thank you for the informa-
tion regarding Professor Remington's death. It grieves me greatly
that I am unable to be present at the memorial services of this really
great man. Our alma mater has lost a faithful and potent son,
whose geniality and influence brought her much renown. May the
seed he has sown ever bring bountiful harvests.
* LOUIS EMANUEL.
Mrs. Joseph P. Remington: The Meyer Bros. Druggist joins other
pharmaceutical publications in extending you sympathy in your
bereavement. Your late husband, Professor Joseph Price Reming-
ton, worked throughout his long life in promoting the welfare of
pharmacy. This is a common cause with the pharmaceutical press.
HENRY M. WHELPLEY.
Mrs. Joseph P. Remington: The officers, board of trustees and
faculty of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy direct me to express
their sincere sympathy in your bereavement. Professor Remington
was a personal and valued friend of this institution. The Professor
honored us with addresses on several occasions.
HENRY M. WHELPLEY.
Mrs. Joseph P. Remington: The Minneapolis Retail Druggists'
Association extend you our heartfelt sympathy in this time of your
bereavement in the loss of your husband and father. The memory
of Professor Remington will be cherished by pharmacists of the
world, the fitting monument of his long and useful career as an
educator.
HENRY RAUCH, Sec. M. R. D. A.
Mrs. Joseph P. Remington: The Minnesota State Pharmaceutical
Association extends deepest sympathy to you and family during
your hour of sorrow.
E. L. NEWCOMB, Sec.
42 MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON.
Mrs. Joseph P. Remington: We loved and admired Joseph P.
Remington, both for his splendid abilities and his personal charm.
The world has lost its greatest pharmacist and we one of our most
beloved friends.
GEO. F. PAYNE.
Mrs. Joseph P. Remington: With extreme sorrow announcement
of your loss is received. A life full of good works, the death of
our professor will be mourned by and mark a serious loss to Ameri-
can pharmacy.
H. LIONEL MEREDITH, Hagerstown, Md.
MRS. Joseph P. REMINGTON.
Dear Mrs. Remington: I am advised by the National Drug Trade
Conference that owing to the fact of a very important meeting going
on at the present time it will be impossible for these delegate mem-
bers of that organization to attend the funeral of Professor Rem-
ington. Dr. A. R. L. Dohme has named as a Committee from the
American Pharmaceutical Association to attend the funeral, Messrs.
H. P. Hynson, John F. Hancock, S. L. Hilton, H. M. Whelpley and
E. G. Eberle.
The National Drug Trade Conference and Dr. A. R. L. Dohme
desire me to express their great sorrow and deep regret over your
bereavement and to extend to you and all of your family these ex-
pressions of sympathy.
Respectfully,
E. G. EBERLE.
Mrs. J. P. Remington: My sincere sympathy. A great man has
passed away. FRANK G. RYAN,
Detroit, Michigan.
Regret I cannot attend services owing to serious illness of wife.
Both greatly moved over loss. V. CoBLENTz,
Long Branch, N. J.
Our deepest sympathy is with you in this hour of sorrow. May
He whose love endureth forever solace you. |
MEYER BROS. DRUG Co.,
St. Louis, Mo.
MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON. 43
Mrs. J. P. Remington: Extend to you and each member of your
family heartfelt sympathy at this hour of bereavement. Regret
that conditions of travel make it impossible for me to attend funeral. '
Have ordered a suitable wreath on behalf of American Conference
of Pharmaceutical Faculties.
HENRY KRAEMER, President.
Mrs. J. P. Remington: Kindly accept the sympathy of the boys
in the twin cities, who were students under Professor Remington
at the P. C. P. Our hearts go out to you in this sad hour of your
bereavement. Dean Remington is no more; the sympathetic voice
which we all knew and loved is no more, but his spirit lives and
breathes an inspiration to us all. The warmth of his last hand-
shake will linger like a benediction until in that realm revealed to
us by faith, we again join the hands of the spirit in the light of the
morning that shall have no end.
Sincerely your friends,
E. L. NEwcom B,
F. J. WULLING,
C. M. McCoy,
H. H. GREGG,
C. T. HELLER,
W. D. KELLY,
F. E. ALLEN,
G. M. RUSSELL,
J. W. SMELTZER.
sº
Mrs. J. P. Remington: Please accept my deepest sympathy in
your sad bereavement. &
CHAS. E. CASPARI,
St. Louis, Mo.
44 MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON.
CoMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED AFTER MEETING.
Prof. E. Fullerton Cook:
Desire to extend most sincere expression of condolence death
of Professor Remington. •º
FLORENTINO LOPO FUNDORA.
Havana, Cuba.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
January Ninth, 1918.
THE TRUSTEES AND FACULTY,
PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Gentlemen:
In behalf of the Bureau of Chemistry, and of myself personally,
permit me to express to you the sympathy of the Bureau in the
great loss that has come to your institution through the death of
Professor Joseph P. Remington.
We, here in the Bureau, who have been working with him in
his fundamentally important revision of the pharmacopoeia have an
adequate appreciation of his great services to pharmacy, to medicine,
and to the country, generally. His loss will be felt far beyond the
circle of his personal friends and colleagues.
Yours sincerely,
CARL L. ALSBERG.
NEW YORK, January 4, 1918.
MR. HowARD B. FRENCH,
President of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Mr. French:
May I just at this moment send a word of personal tribute to
the memory of a man for whom I have had the personal regards of
a friend and pupil for these many years. For it was my good for-
tune to have been a student at the beginning of Professor Rem-
ington’s work, and to have been present at his first lecture.
MEMORIAL MEETING TO PROFESSOR REMINGTON. 45
In Professor Remington's passing, pharmacy has lost its most
distinguished teacher, professor and author, who has given Service
to pharmacy from every angle, Substantial, brilliant and enduring.
This is too well known and too varied to make any adequate men-
tion of it here. It will also bring a sense of personal loss to very
many men who will miss him, his friendly and gracious personality,
the consideration and moderation which happily tempered his judg-
ment and gave influence to his counsel in the many personal rela-
tions in which he served his alma mater and his profession.
Sincerely yours,
BENJAMI IN T. FAIRCHILD.
HAVANA, CUBA, January 14, 1918.
MR. How ARD B, FRENCH,
President of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Sir: .
The Cuban Branch of the American Pharmaceutical Association,
in a meeting held on the IOth of this month, resolved to express our
feelings of condolence for the irreparable loss suffered by the Col-
lege in the death of Professor Joseph P. Remington.
With profound sorrow I transmit this action to you.
Respectfully yours,
José P. ALACAN,
Secretary,
VEDADO, CUBA, Jan. 14, 1918.
MR. HowARD B. FRENCH,
President of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear sir:
I have learned with profound sorrow of the death of Professor
Joseph P. Remington which occurred at his residence, 1832 Pine St.
in that City on January Ist.
With the death of Professor Remington the Philadelphia College
of Pharmacy loses a great teacher, and we all lose a good friend and
pharmacy loses a great man.
I tender to the College my heartfelt sympathy in the loss which
you have sustained.
Very cordially yours,
José P. ALACAN.
46 ACTION OF NATIONAL DRUG TRADE CONFERENCE.
ACTION TAKEN BY THE NATIONAL DRUG TRADE
& CONFERENCE.
IN MEMORIAM
PROFESSOR Joseph PRICE REMINGTON.
The funeral of the late Professor Joseph Price Remington oc-
curred at Philadelphia, Friday, January 4, 1918, at one o'clock P.M.
The National Drug Trade Conference, then in session at Baltimore,
adjourned for two hours, out of respect to the eminent deceased;
and upon reconvening at three o'clock adopted the following reso-
lutions reported by the committee named by a standing vote.
WHEREAs, In His wisdom it has pleased Almighty God to take
from our midst our distinguished and highly esteemed friend and
fellow pharmacist, Joseph Price Remington, and
WHEREAs, The services which Joseph Price Remington has ren-
dered the people of this entire country, the profession of pharmacy,
the entire drug trade and the many thousands of young men who
have enjoyed the privilege of being his pupils have been of unusual
prominence, extent and excellence, and
WHEREAs, The Revision Committee of the United States Phar-
macopoeia has been especially benefited and assisted by his eminent
qualities as leader and chairman during a period of over twenty-five
years, and the American Pharmaceutical Association has enjoyed
his wise counsel and sincere help and support as member, councillor
and president, and
WHEREAs, The International Pharmaceutical Conference has
for many years enjoyed the advantage and benefit of his varied ex-
perience and advice, and
WHEREAs, All the many interests and branches of pharmacy and
the drug trade have by his demise suffered a great and irreparable
loss, and his many thousands of friends in this country and abroad
have lost and will sadly miss that ever-present and always encour-
aging smile and pleasant word which was so characteristic of Pro-
fessor Remington and has smoothed over so many rough and stony
spots in the life and career of his pupils and friends, and
WHEREAs, It seems incredible and difficult to conceive that his
AN APPRECIATION OF PROF. REM INGTON. 47
many friends, associates and pupils will never in this life again see
the genial countenance and grasp the warm friendly hand of our
departed friend, now be it therefore
Resolved, By the National Drug Trade Conference in meeting
assembled on this the day on which his mortal remains shall be
transferred to their last resting place in that city of brotherly love
in which he has spent practically all his many useful happy years,
that in his death, pharmacy and the drug trade and this Conference
have lost one of their most prominent and distinguished represen-
tatives and friends, and be it further
Resolved, That this National Drug Trade Conference hereby
gives expression to its feeling of sorrow at the loss it has sustained
through his death and of sympathy with his family in their great
bereavement, and be it further
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the
minutes of this Conference and as well that a copy be sent to the
family of our deceased friend and to the pharmaceutical press.
Respectfully submitted,
DR. A. R. L. DoPIME, Chairman,
SAMUEL C. HENRY,
R. C. STOPER,
John C. WALLACE,
FRANK E. HollTDAY.
AN APPRECIATION OF PROFESSOR JOSEPH P. REMINGTON.
By George M. Beringer.
In the death of Professor Joseph P. Remington, American pharmacy has
lost its most renowned advocate and its most prominent teacher. No man
has exerted a greater influence in pharmaceutical circles during the past
quarter of a century than has this illustrious pharmacist whose earthly career
ceased with the first day of the year. -
Joseph P. Remington was in the truest sense of the term a “self-made
man.” Gifted by nature and with a laudable ambition, by personal effort
and study he overcame the handicap of having been compelled, because of
the decease of his parent, to leave the Central High School of Philadelphia
without having completed the four years' course. His practical pharmaceu-
tical training was under such prominent men as Charles Ellis and Dr. E. R.
Squibb. His association during the formative period of his early manhood
1 Read at the meeting of the New York Branch of the American Pharma-
ceutical Association, Monday evening, January 14, 1918.
4S AN APPRECIATION OF PROF. REMINGTON.
with many of the leading pharmacists of that time undoubtedly had a decisive
influence upon his future career. g .
As the assistant of those pioneer teachers of pharmacy, Professors
Procter and Parrish, he received an inspiration and as the successor of these
eminent men it became his duty to develop their plans and ideals and to him
must be accorded the credit of having firmly established the teaching of the
theory and practice of pharmacy.
As a teacher Professor Remington was justly celebrated for his ability
and success in that field of labor. During the nearly fifty years that he
devoted to teaching pharmacy, he has instructed more students than have
listened to any other teacher in that profession. His presentation of the
subject matter of his lectures was always clear, the experiments and illustra-
tions appropriate and very commonly the facts were driven home by some apt
story or anecdote that made their retention more easy. He never missed an
opportunity of impressing upon his classes the responsibility of the pharma-
cist and his students were thoroughly imbued with the ethics of their calling.
Not the least important service that Professor Remington has rendered to
pharmacy was through his personal contact with students. By his personality
he won their esteem and enjoyed their confidence in a very large extent and
was thus able to help them and to guide many over troublesome situations.
His genial, kindly, fatherly advice has been of incalculable value to many who
are now engaged in the drug business and by their example his influence will
continue to be exerted on the oncoming generations of students.
Professor Remington's literary works are recognized as standard au-
thorities. His editing of the pharmacy of the United States Dispensatory
has been very satisfactory and his “Practice of Pharmacy,” of which the
sixth edition has recently been published, is deservedly the most popular text-
book on pharmacy. -
Possibly the most valuable public service of Professor Remington has
been as chairman of the committee of revision of the United States Pharma-
copoeia. The advances made in the Eighth and Ninth Revisions were indeed
marked, and a large portion of the credit for this is due to his indefatigable
labors as the chairman. To fill this responsible position was no easy task
and the trials and worriment associated therewith have doubtless shortened
the life of the chairman. -
He possessed to a remarkable degree the faculty of judging the character
and ability of men and to understand their peculiarities and preferences. It
was this ability to judge men and his study of his associates as well as his
students that was in a measure the secret of his influence. It enabled him
to enthuse his colaborers and to obtain their best efforts and therein was
largely his success as chairman of the revision committee.
It was my privilege to enter college as a student under the professor in
1878, and later, as a trustee of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, I be-
came more intimately acquainted with his work as a teacher. Later as a
member of the committee of revision of the Pharmacopoeia and in numerous
other ways we were thrown much together and so I became even better
acquainted with the work and spirit back of the man. It is a great satisfaction
to know that he lived to complete these great life works and to learn of the
TRIBUTE TO PROF. REMINGTON. 49
appreciation of the world of his labors thereon. We can at this time feel
only the great loss that we have all sustained in the decease of our captain.
“My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won ;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells |
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.”
A TRIBUTE TO JOSEPH P. REMINGTON.1
By Joseph W. England.
When a man of the prominence of Joseph Price Remington passes into
the Great Beyond, the impulse of those who knew and loved him is to pay
tribute to his worth and work. The first is easy, because “out of the heart
the mouth speaketh" and love finds ready expression; the second is difficult,
because it takes time, and a long time, to properly estimate the full value of
a life's work. It is very much like viewing a beautiful painting. Its real
beauty can only be seen by standing at a certain distance from it and getting
the proper focus. So it is with the work of a human soul. The future his-
torian is best qualified to sense human values; the present-day observer is
too close, too much influenced by the lights and shadows of personal rela-
tionship.
Therefore, I would speak of the worth of our departed friend, rather
than of his work and its dominating influence upon American pharmacy. To
know him was to love him. His charming personality, his fine tact, and his
ability to make all those who came within the magic circle of his influence
feel that here was a man and here a true friend—these were striking charac-
teristics of him and they all “rang true.” They did not spring from motives
of policy. They came from a soul reared in a Quaker atmosphere full of
love of humanity. He had his faults; we all have ours. To use an Irishism,
the man who has no faults is not faultless; he has the fault of inertia. The
strong, positive man is intensely human, and being human, cannot be perfect.
The big thing is that such a personality inspires others to be kind, to be gen-
erous, to be considerate, to be friendly, to be helpful; and what is more,
makes life better worth the living to countless thousands, as the influence of
such a life spreads far and wide, like the ever-widening circles of a stream
into which a stone is cast.
The outstanding features of Professor Remington's personality were, it
seems to me, three in number—his unusual ability, his unusual force of char-
acter and his unusual courage.
1 Read at the meeting of the New York Branch of the American Pharma-
ceutical Association, Monday evening, January 14, 1918.
5
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TRIBUTE TO PROF. REMINGTON.
His ability was inherited and acquired. He had a keenly retentive mem-
ory, and a fine, discriminating judgment in appreciating the relative values
of facts. He was exceedingly painstaking in his consideration of details.
He had a deep knowledge of the science of his profession coupled with rare
executive capacity, an unusual combination of scientist and executive; and
he knew, as no other, the possibilities and limitations of every active research
worker in American pharmacy. He had practical experience in all the
branches of pharmaceutical practice—the retail, wholesale and manufacturing,
and acquired thereby unusual breadth of view.
His force of character was unusual. Strong and positive in his opinions,
he was not hasty in forming them, and was tolerant of the opinions of others,
and exceedingly patient. His anxiety was to be right in his decisions and to
play fair with his opponents. He believed that might may win for the mo-
ment, but that right, eternal right, which is only another name for Truth,
triumphs through the centuries. He never grew “stale.” He always kept
young by associating with young people.
He had unusual courage. At a meeting of the board of trustees of the
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy held last spring, I asked Professor Rem-
ington as to his physical condition and expressed my sympathy. He replied:
“I am near the end of my lifel ” He said this calmly and with a smile. He
was “At the End of the Trail,” as exemplified by the wonderful statue of
that title at the San Francisco Exposition, typifying the final extinction of
the Red Man—the Indian on a pony, both “all in,” utterly exhausted, inca-.
pable of going further, at the brink of a precipice overlooking a dark valley.
And the point is, he spoke of his “passing ” without a trace of fear—with a
smile on his lips and immortality in his eyes. He was unabashed and un-
afraid of Death, ready to go down into the Dark Valley and face his Maker
This was courage, real courage, unusual courage. And such a courage he
exhibited time and time again in the crises of his life.
And now he is gone. “We ne'er shall look upon his like again.” But
the world’s work must go on. American pharmacy has grown more during
the past fifty years than ever before and it must grow still more during the
coming years, or perish. Therefore, let us catch inspiration from the lives
of such men as Procter, Parrish, Squibb, Rice, Maisch and Remington, and
let each one of us do our utmost to promote the growth of American pharmacy
in its best estate. We cannot all be leaders, nor need be, but we all can be
workers, and if each one works to his fullest possible limitations—and no
man really knows his own possibilities—God only knows—the future will be
safe for sick humanity.
A GREAT LEADER HAS PASSED A WAY. 5 I
A (; REAT LEAD [...R II AS P \SSED AWAY.”
In any calling comparatively few men reach the exalted position
of national leadership. When such, however, has been attained, no
matter what the sphere of activity, the world is ready to recognize
superiority and to pay homage. True leadership carries with it
great responsibility and the opportunity to accomplish some things
noteworthy in the line of the leader's achievements and to add to
the welfare and progress of the world.
America with its great natural resources, as yet, but incidentally
developed, has been called the country of golden opportunities and
offers in numerous avenues unequalled possibilities for achieve-
ments. Coupled with these possibilities there has been the pioneer
spirit of “do and dare" unbridled by the conventional lines of caste
and prestige that have been so prominent in the European nations.
Consequently, we have had in this country many notable examples
of success, evidenced by rapid accumulation of wealth or the
achievement of influence, which we designate as leadership. Amer-
ica has developed her great men under different conditions and
training than has held in any other country. Nevertheless, in every
line of human activity our nation has developed some truly great
men. Our statesmen, our military and naval commanders, our
scholars, authors, and teachers, our physicians, Surgeons, lawyers,
and preachers, our scientists, inventors and discoverers, our artists,
our actors, our captains of agriculture, industry or trade have all
taken their places in the forerank with the leaders of other nations
and by their work have added not only glory and renown to the
United States, but have materially increased the sum of human
knowledge and achievements and stimulated world progress.
American pharmacy, although associated with peculiar surround-
ings and conditions of medical practice that at times appeared to
be hampering scientific progress, has, nevertheless, made noteworthy
advances and is to-day holding up its end with the other branches
of the medical profession. There has been developed a corps of
pharmaceutical leaders whose professional labors and standing are
universally acknowledged.
In the recent years, death has exacted an unusually heavy toll
from among the leaders of pharmacy. No profession can well with-
stand the loss of men of the type of Hallberg, Wilbert, Caspari and
Holzhauer and not suffer severely from the resulting disorganiza-
! Editorial: A MERICAN Jou RNAL or PII AR MACY.
52 A GREAT LEADER HAS PASSED AWAY.
tion. More appalling the loss, greater the disorganization, that will
result from the decease of Professor Joseph P. Remington, who
for many years has been recognized both at home and abroad as
the commanding figure in American pharmacy.
Great leaders are not born as such. It is true that certain in-
nate qualifications are essential, but to personal ambition and to
personal efforts and developments must be attributed that success
of an individual that continues to lead to advanced standing and
greater influence until the goal of preeminence and acknowledged
leadership is achieved. Back of all of these there must be ideals,
predominant personal characteristics that point the path of prog-
ress, some perpetual spring of incentive as a guiding influence.
In the great leader whose recent decease we mourn and whose
influence will extend through many generations of oncoming phar-
macists, there were strong personal characteristics, some of which
have been dwelt upon by his eulogists. There was, however, another
well-spring upon which Professor Remington greatly relied that has
scarcely been touched upon by his many sorrowing friends.
His faith in the power of prayer and his reliance upon Divine
guidance and support was beautifully illustrated in an incident that
occurred some years ago. We had been together one afternoon in
a conference on an important question. That night, with the weight
of the responsibility on his mind, he wrote to me from Longport:
“I am writing this in the “sma wee” hours, but I must write you my
impressions of the meeting this afternoon. You and I have a grave
responsibility; we must work together. I know that you are accus-
tomed to bear loads and that you do not trust to your own strength
in your trials; neither do I; if I did, I would have been sponged out
long ago. . . . Let us unite in prayer about this—I know that you
look for strength from above—and this may sound strange from
one whom you may have associated in your mind as thinking and
believing in nothing but pharmacy—but I have for many years be-
lieved in special and definite supplication for guidance and I know
that you do also.”
This is only a glimpse at the inner man, the true Christian char-
acter, that shows the power that gave to him strength and endurance
under most trying circumstances, and made him preeminent.
This additional tribute to the purity of his thought is due to
that great leader of pharmacy in America who in obedience to the
will of the Divine ceased his earthly career with the commencement
of the vear. G. M. B.
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