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Dr Otto Augustus Wall

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Dr Otto Augustus Wall

Birth
St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
Death
13 Feb 1922 (aged 75)
St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
Burial
Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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He was the son of Rev. George Wendelin Wall who was born at Owen near Kirchheim, Wertemberg, Germany; and of Julia Friedericka von Turnau, born in the province of Hanover, Germany. His parents emigrated to St. Louis where Rev. Wall had a long & deeply productive service in various German protestant congregations.

Their son, Otto was educated in St. Louis Public Schools, then apprenticed in pharmacy under Dr. Enno Sander, graduating in 1868 from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy. He developed his own establishment which he ran while he was a student at the Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, from which he graduated in 1870. He then took a post-graduate degree at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, NYC, continuing his pharmacy until 1873. At this time he became full Professor of Materia Medica & Therapeutics in the Missouri Medical College, later becoming Professor of Chemistry.

Dr. Wall was a president of the Missouri State Pharmaceutical Association, 1883-1885 and was widely known as a fine lecturer and entertaining conversationalist.

He was the son of Rev. George Wendelin Wall who was born at Owen near Kirchheim, Wertemberg, Germany; and of Julia Friedericka von Turnau, born in the province of Hanover, Germany. His parents emigrated to St. Louis where Rev. Wall had a long & deeply productive service in various German protestant congregations.

Their son, Otto was educated in St. Louis Public Schools, then apprenticed in pharmacy under Dr. Enno Sander, graduating in 1868 from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy. He developed his own establishment which he ran while he was a student at the Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, from which he graduated in 1870. He then took a post-graduate degree at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, NYC, continuing his pharmacy until 1873. At this time he became full Professor of Materia Medica & Therapeutics in the Missouri Medical College, later becoming Professor of Chemistry.

Dr. Wall was a president of the Missouri State Pharmaceutical Association, 1883-1885 and was widely known as a fine lecturer and entertaining conversationalist.



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