American journal of pharmacy . teers. After the war, September 4, 1865, he came to Philadelphia, andentered the employ of Edward B. Garrigues, at loth and EairmountAve. During the same year he matriculated at the PhiladelphiaCollege of Pharmacy and graduated in the class of 1867. Duringthe summer of 1866 he studied botany under Dr. Horatio C. Wood,of the University of Pennsylvania, then located at 9th and ChestnutvSts. He was elected to the Board of Trustees of his Alma Materin 1868, and continued a member until the time of his death. In1868 he formed a partnership with Mr. Garrigues, which co
American journal of pharmacy . teers. After the war, September 4, 1865, he came to Philadelphia, andentered the employ of Edward B. Garrigues, at loth and EairmountAve. During the same year he matriculated at the PhiladelphiaCollege of Pharmacy and graduated in the class of 1867. Duringthe summer of 1866 he studied botany under Dr. Horatio C. Wood,of the University of Pennsylvania, then located at 9th and ChestnutvSts. He was elected to the Board of Trustees of his Alma Materin 1868, and continued a member until the time of his death. In1868 he formed a partnership with Mr. Garrigues, which continueduntil the time of the latters retirement in 1887, when Mr. Boringbecame the sole proprietor. He continued this business until lastyear, when he disposed of it to his successor. 1861. At the ex-piration of the threemonths he re-en-listed in CompanyE, 79th Pennsyl-vania Volunteers,first as private, andwas commissionedFirst - LieutenantJune 19, 1864. Hetook part in anumber of the greatbattles of the war,at Murfreesb or o ,. 6o8 Obituary. Am. Jour. Pharm. August, 1920. The deceased became a member of the American PharmaceuticalAssociation in 1867, and attended many of the annual conventionsespecially those of earlier years. He was one of the organizers ofthe Philadelphia Wholesale Drug Company, a member of the Penn-sylvania State Pharmaceutical Association, and the PhiladelphiaAssociation of Retail Druggists. October 8, 1873, Mr. Boring married Elizabeth Garrigues Tru-man, who died February 18, 1907. They had four children, all ofwhom survive the deceased. They are Edwin Garrigues Boring,Professor of Experimental Psychology in Clark University, Wor-cester, Mass.; Alice Middleton Boring, for the past two years As-sistant Professor of Biology at the Union Medical College, Peking,China, and now appointed Assistant Professor of Zoology atWellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.; Katharine Boring Rondthaler,wife of Dr. Howard Rondthaler, President of Salem College, Wins-ton-Salem, N.
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