Cincinnati College of Pharmacy - Graduate Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Edward H. Piogman, Jr. PA. 3,. Ply. C., Pb. M. This is the biography of a man, our friend, our professor, one of the faculty of friendly learned men who ate professors at the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy. As it is written, it seems and reads too realistic to be true; yet, as there are wonders of nature in this world of ours, so can there be wonders written of men. Mr. Piogman is not a wonder of the world, but he has risen from the ranks to an admiring height. My narrative has not been written too clearly to reveal his character and his youthful days in the drug store. The apprentices of today are not asked to do in our modern stores what he did in his early years. The future is yet to come, the present is today as I write, the past has gone- it will never return except from the crowded chambers of our memories, bringing back to us the doings of our happy, carefree days of youth. Mr. Plogman remembers, and is happy when his youth returns to him. Therefore, I write of the past, that which shall never return. The month of Aprii, 1899, was on its wane, the seventeenth to be exact, when Edward H. Piogman, Jr., was introduced to the world. He was born to Edward, Sn, and Mary Plogman. Happy was the father when he saw his son with twinkling brown eyes. He had a smile on his face, a smile of pride, when he thought of him, hoping he would make a name for himself in some line of endeavor, which would entirely he of his own choosing. Of Edwanfs boyhood iittle can he said, except that he was spanked when the occasion demanded; ran errands for Mother; played with the gangs, perhaps broke a window now and thene-Father had to enter the altercation with the neigh- bors; probably smoked corn-silk iwhich he now knows as Zea Maysi; and roasted spuds and weenies on the corner lot after dark until Father, tired of calling, decided on action to get him home to supper and then to bed! At six years of age Edward went to school at St. AugustinEs on Bank Street. In the classroom he was quiet, attentive and industrious. He was bright, worked earnestly, received good grades and won the admiration of his teachers. He graduated from St. Augustinek Commercial School at the age of twelve. Old enough to work, Father thought he should go out and scout around for a job. The very next day he was working in F. L. Oswaldis Pharmacy. Picture Edward at work, Scrubbing diligently to clean a mortar of the catmine coloring, or to remove a giycyrrhiza stain. Used prescription bottles were to be scoured, corked, wrapped and stored for future use. The boy had a man-sized job. He opened the store at seven-thirty every morning and worked through until closing time. with the exception of one night a week, which he had free. He Flown 9'! K1