Several multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical companies got their starts in Philadelphia as neighborhood drug stores.
Weightman, Powers, and Rosengarten made their money by selling quinine to the US government.
James Smith and Clayton French did not know each and both started as neighborhood druggists; but family and business partners kept their businesses going and their names prominent long after their deaths.
The Wyeth Brothers invented a machine that standardized the size of pills and tablets, and William Warner learned how to sugarcoat them. Warner’s pharmacopeia was distributed internationally and served as the standard reference for doctors and pharmacists for years.
And McNeil Laboratories introduced Tylenol Elixir for Children in 1955, then watched it become one of the best-selling over-the-counter meds of all time.
McNeil is interred at Laurel Hill West, while all the others are at Laurel Hill East. All of them have intriguing stories you will hear in this episode of All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #058 – Laurel Hill and Big Pharma.
WALKING TOUR: Laurel Hill West from Pencoyd to Barmouth
ABC #044: Some James Garfield Connections at Laurel Hill
BBB #013: Every Brilliant Thing: Ice Cream and Laurel Hill
ABC #043: Tick Tock: Clocks, Watches, and Laurel Hill, Part 1
BBB #012: Turbaned Warrior for Justice - C. DeLores Tucker
ABC #042: Mint Condition: Some Laurel Hill Coinage Connections
BBB #011: The Red Rose Girls and Henrietta Cozens
ABC #041: Three More Drinker Siblings to Know - Harry, Cecil, and Kitty
BBB #010: Lincoln’s Railroad Man - Herman Haupt
ABC #040: Friends of Thomas Jefferson, Part 1 - I’m Just a Bill
BBB #009: A Forgotten Pioneer in Gender Studies - Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley
WALKING TOUR: West Laurel Hill from Barmouth to Pencoyd
ABC #039: In Heaven There Is No Beer- Brewers of Laurel Hill
BBB #008: Every Writer’s Writer, Every Human’s Human - Loren Eiseley
ABC #038: Through the Looking Glass: Lewis Carroll Connections
BBB #007: Altering History - Francis, Clara, and Susanna Dercum
ABC #037: Boies Will Be Boys - Senator Penrose and His Brothers
BBB #006: A Life for Peace - Hannah Clothier Hull
ABC #036: The Three Remarkable Wister Sisters
BBB #005: Philadelphia’s First Black ”Power Couple” - Raymond Pace & Sadie T.M. Alexander
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