Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Edward PARRISH
PARRISH, Edward, educator, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 31, 1822; son of Dr. Joseph Parrish (1779-1840), an eminent physician of Philadelphia, and Susanna (Cox) Parrish. He attended a Friends school and entered the drug store of his brother Dillwyn. He was graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1842, conducted a drug store adjoining the University of Pennsylvania, 1843-50, and in 1849 established a school of practical pharmacy. He took a course of instruction in analytical chemistry under Professor Booth and a course in materia medica at the University of Pennsylvania. He was professor of materia medica at the College of Pharmacy, 1864-67, and professor of practical pharmacy, 1867-72. He was one of the founders of Swathmore college, its secretary, 1864-68, and president, 1868-72. He was a member of the American Pharmaceutical society, 1852-72, and its president, 1868-72; a member of the Great Britain and Berlin societies, and was a delegate to the International pharmaceutical congress which met in London in 1858. In 1872 he was sent by the U.S. government as one of the peace commissioners to settle the Indian difficulties in the west, where he was stricken with malarial fever from which he died. He is the author of: An introduction to Practical Pharmamacy (1856); The Phantom Bouquet, a Popular Treatise on the Art of Skeletonizing Leaves and Seed Vessels, and Adapting them to Embellish the Home of Taste (1863), and An Essay on Education (1866), besides many contributions to the Journal of Pharmacy. He died at Fort Sill, Indian Territory, Sept. 9, 1872.
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