Philadelphia College of Pharmacy - Graduate Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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SAMUEL P. SADTLER, PH.D., LL.D.

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11' Miugraphg I e r e -if AMUEL PHILIP SADTLER, Professor of Chemistry in the Phil- adelphia C-ollege of Pharmacy, was born in Pinegrove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, july 18th, 1847. He comes of what may be ::: 'S li ' ' A termed a clerical family, his father and his maternal grandfather both having been Lutheran ministers. The former, the late Rev. Dr. Benjamin S. Sadtler served in addition for a period of IO years as President of Muhlenberg College, at Allentown, Pa., and the latter, the Rev. Dr. -S. Schmucker, was the founder of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pa., and Chairman of the Faculty of that institution for a period of nearly forty years. His early education was obtained at Easton, Pa., from the High School of which he graduated during his fath-er's residence at that place in 1862. The same year he entered Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, from which he gradf uated in 1867, his course having been interrupted during the yeariof the battle of Gettysburg, in 1863. It was only during his senior year at College that, after having devoted m-ost of his attention up to that point to classical studies, h-e turn- ed to distinctively -scientific subjects and determined to choose these for his life work. iThis somewhat abrupt turn was undoubtedly due to the influence of an enthusiastic teacher, the late Prof. Alfred M. Mayer, of the Stevens Institute of Technology, at Hoboken, N. I., who was at that time Professor of Chemistry and Physics in the Gettysburg Institution. A In th-e fall of 1867 he went to the newly established Lehigh University, to begin his professional studies in Chemistry, this choice being largely determined by the fact that his friend, Dr. Mayer, had been called there at that time as Professor of Physics. A year was spent here in the -study of Chemistry, Physics and Mineralogy, when, having a desire for more extended opportunities, he Went, in the fall. of 1868, to Harvard University, where he entered the Law- rence Scientific School as an advanced student under Dr. Wolcott Gibbs, then the mostdistinguished chemist in America. After a year and a half spent here under Prof. Gibbs in Chemistry, and Josiah P. Cooke in Mineralogy, he passed his examinations for the degree of S. B. in January I87O, and a month later sailed for Germany, where -he wished to complete his chemical studies. After a year spent at the University of Gottingen, where he obtained the de- gree of Doctor of Plhilosophy, in the spring of 1871, and several months in travel, he returned in the summer of the same year to take up his life work as a teacher of Chemistry. From 1871 to 1874 he was Professor of Chemistry and Physics in Pennsylvania College, from which he had graduated in 1867, and in the fall of 1874 he came to Philadelphia as Professor of General and Organic Chemistry II