Silas Maineville Burroughs : obituary.

Date:
[1895]
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Credit: Silas Maineville Burroughs : obituary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    434 Obituary. / Am. Jour. Pliarui. t August, 1895. S. Wellcome, Ph.G., and that a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to them.” W. E. K. P'rrdurick Brown, Ph.G. P'rederick Brown, Pli.G., Class 1861, was born in Philadelphia, December—, in 1837, died suddenly at his summer residence, which was built by his father, in 1S48, in Burlington, N. J., on Tuesday morning, September 25, 1S94, of pneumonia, in his fifty-seventh year. He was the eldest son of P'rederick and Charlotte Augusta Hoppin Brown. His father was born in 1796, and was the original manufacturer of Brown’s Jamaica Ginger, and founded the business in 1822, at the northeast corner of Fifth and Chestnut Streets (the old stand which was universally known as the “ War Office,” because of the building being used by the war department dur¬ ing the Presidency of Washington and Adams). Frederick Brown, Jr., received his education first at the Episcopal Academy and afterwards at the University of Pennsylvania. After his early education was finished he entered his father’s store and learned the drug business, and attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, graduating with the Class of 1861, and after graduation he continued in his father’s store for a short time; but being desirous of conducting a store of his own, he shortly afterwards rented a store on the southeast corner of Ninth and Chestnut vStreets, under .the Continental Hotel, and opened up business for himself. He remained here about two years, or until 1864, when he gave it up and re-entered the store of his father, who died a month later, when he inherited the business. He made mauv improvements in the store, and continued the business until 1889, when he removed the store to 127 South Fourth .Street, and in 1890, desiring to devote his entire time to the manufacture of the essence of Jamaica Ginger, he sold the store to Charles G. Dodson, Ph.G., Class of 1859, who had been associated witli him in the management of the drug portion of the business since the death of his father. Mr. Brown was then free to devote himself to the manu¬ facture of his preparation, which he had been doing for some time previous, and with which his name had been identified. In June, 1865, he married Miss J. E. Wills, of New Haven, Conn., who survives him, with three sous and a daughter. Mr. Brown was not a society man, but preferring to spend his unoccupied time from business with his family in the house. He was connected with St. Andrew’s Protestant Episcopal Church, P.ighth Street above Spruce, and was one of the vestrymen at the time of his decease. He was also President of the Laurel Hill Cemetery Company, of which his father was one of the founders. His funeral services were held on Friday afternoon, September 28th, at St. Andrew’s Protestant Episcopal Church, and was largely attended by his many friends. He was a member of the Alumni Association Pharmacy. of the Philadelphia College of W. E. K.
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