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

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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

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in the University of Pennsylvania. It was while holding this latter position that, in 1878, he was asked to reli-eve Prof. Robert Bridges, the venerable Professor of Chemistry in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, by taking part of his lecture work, and when in the spring of 1879 Dr. Bridges was made Emeritus 'Professor of Chemistry, Dr. Sadtler was elected as his successor. From that time to the present his interest in Pharmacy has had a ,continuous growth, as is shown by his work as a teacher and his literary activity in that direction. The Professorship at the University of Pennsylvania he relinquished in 1891, after seventeen years of service, and opened an office as Consulting Chemical Expert, which he has since maintained. I Prof. Sadtler's first literary work was a Handbook of Chemical Experimen- tation for Lecturers and Teachersf, publi-shed in 1877. In ISSO he became asso- ciated with Dr. H. C. Wood and Prof. joseph P. Remington in the revision of the United States Dispensatory, and st-illlcontinues as the chemical. editor of this great reference book. , In 1891, he published the Hrst edition of his Industrial Qrganic Chemistry, which has since gone through three editions, having a wide circula- tion in this country and in England, and has appeared abroad in authorized Ger- man and Russianitranslations. In 1895, he published jointly with his colleague, Prof. Trimble, the first edition of Sadtler 81 Trimble's Pharmaceutical and Medi- cal Chemistryf' This has also run through three editions, becoming known after the death of Prof. Trimble as Sadtler and Coblentz's Textbook . He at- tended the National Conventio-ns of 1890 and IQOO for the Revision of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia as a del.egate from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and was elect-ed by the Convention of IQOO a member of the Standing Committee of Re- vision, in which capacity he is serving at present. He has contributed in ad-dition, many scientific papers to the chemical journals and delivered many public ad- dresess on chemical and technical subjects. Prof. Sadtler is an active member of numerouls scientific societies, among which may be mentioned the American Philosophical Society, of which he was Secretary from 1898 to IQO2-Q the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society Cserving in the Council of the latter for a number of y-earsj, the American Electrochemical Society, of which he is at present a manager 5 'the Chemical Soci-eties of London and Berlin, and the Society of Chemical Industry and the Franklin Institute, of which he was a manager for a number of years, and of which he is now Emeritus Professor of Chemistry. Cf distinctively pharmaceutical societies, he is a member of the American Pharma- ceutical Association and the Pennsylvania State Pharmaceutical Association. He is also a memberof the Chemists, Club, of New York, and was an original mem- ber of the University Club, of Philadelphia. , In IQO2, Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg, Pa., honored him on the oc- casion of the 35th anniversary of his graduation, by conferring on him the hon- orary degree of LL. D. , ' I2