Record #:

10203

Author(s):

Roger, Lou

Abstract:

William Simpson was born in New York, moved to Richmond, and at age sixteen, moved with his family to Warrenton, North Carolina. Later he worked in a Richmond drugstore and for a pharmaceutical maker. During the Civil War he was assigned as a pharmacist in military hospitals in Raleigh. Simpson wanted pharmacists trained, and in 1893, he became dean of the Leonard School of Pharmacy at Shaw University.

Source:

We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 6 Issue 10, Feb 1949, p19, 27, bibl

Subject(s):

Simpson, William, 1839-1905; Pharmacists