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William Simpson

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10203
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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.
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