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Edward Parrish was born on May 31, 1822 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the seventh son of Joseph and Susanna (Cox) Parrish.
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Edward Parrish was born on May 31, 1822 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the seventh son of Joseph and Susanna (Cox) Parrish.
Edward Parrish attended the Friends' School until he was sixteen years of age, then was apprenticed to his brother Dillwyn, who conducted a drug store on the southwest corner of Eighth and Arch streets. During the term of his apprenticeship he attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and graduated from that institution in 1842.
In 1845 Edward Parrish purchased a drug store at the northwest corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets adjoining the building which housed the University of Pennsylvania. This close proximity to the University brought him into intimate contact with the medical students in particular, and no doubt gave him his first desire to teach. He concluded that the medical students were not sufficiently versed in the practical work of pharmacy to enable them to practise medicine to the best advantage, especially in rural communities where there were no drug stores. To overcome this deficiency in their education and training, he decided to begin a school in the rear of his store for the teaching of practical pharmacy, and opened this school in 1849. The following year he entered into partnership with his brother and moved to Eighth and Arch streets, where he continued to conduct his school until 1864.
In the latter year, he was elected to fill the chair of materia medica in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, which position he gave up in 1867 to take over the professorship of theory and practice of pharmacy, the duties of which were more to his liking. This chair he held until his death. In the same year in which he entered upon his duties at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, he secured the passage of the act of incorporation of Swarthmore College, and the subsequent founding of this institution was largely the result of his efforts. He served as secretary of the board of managers from 1864 to 1868 and as president of the college from 1868 to the spring of 1871.
He wrote a lot of books. In addition to a textbook, An Introduction to Practical Pharmacy (copyrighted 1855, revised editions 1859, 1864) and a volume entitled Summer Medical Teaching in Philadelphia (1857), he wrote numerous papers on subjects of pharmaceutical interest. More than fifty of these were printed in the Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association and the American Journal of Pharmacy, others in the Druggists' Circular and elsewhere. He was elected a member of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1843, was elected to the board of trustees in 1845, and served as the secretary of the latter from 1845 to 1852, and as secretary of the College from 1854 to 1864. He became a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association at its first meeting in 1852, was elected recording secretary in 1853, first vice-president in 1866, and president in 1868.
Edward Parrish was a delegate to the Pharmacopoeal Convention in 1860. He was appointed by the mayor of Philadelphia as one of a commission of five to carry into effect the Pharmacy Act of 1872. In August of the same year, he accepted an appointment from the federal government to visit certain Indian tribes in the present Oklahoma that had been placed under the supervision of the Society of Friends, of which he was a member, and while engaged in performing this service, he contracted malarial fever and died on September 9, 1872, at Fort Sill, Indian Territory.
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Edward Parrish was a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association, of the Society of Friends.
In 1848, Edward Parrish married Margaret Hunt of Philadelphia. They had four sons and a daughter.
