Virgil Coblentz

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 1932
• Weight: 211 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0898-140X
• DOI: 10.1002/jps.3080210501

✦ Synopsis

Virgil Coblentz was born and raised in the drug business; his father, J. P. Coblentz, of Pennsylvania German extraction, was born in Hagerstown, Md. ; he moved to Cincinnati in the 40's and served an apprenticeship as apothecary. He had five sons, all of whom were brought up as druggists; the father moved to Springfield, Ohio, where he opened a pharmacy in 1862 and this was operated continuously by one brother after another until 1929.

After graduating from Wittenberg College Academy in 1878, he was engaged in his father's pharmacy for several years and then entered Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, graduating in 1882 and winning the Procter Prize, Alumni medals with Chemistry and Materia Medica prizes. He joined the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL Asso-CIATION in the year of his graduation and has now reached the fiftieth anniversary of both of these events.

After the death of his father Virgil returned to Springfield to take charge of the Coblentz Pharmacy. He was elected to membership in the Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association, and honored with the presidency in 1884 and, in the same year, successor to Professor Judge as professor of Materia Medica and Toxicology at the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy.