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Bower Family Henry Bower {1833-1896} graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1854. Two years later, he opened a drugstore and chemical shop at 7 South Front Street in Philadelphia, and in 1858, he built Bower Chemical Enterprises. Not far away near Chestnut and Front was the grocery store owned and operated by James Wills, Jr. whose bequest founded the Wills Eye Hospital.After perfecting the ammonium sulfate system, Henry Bower began to recycle stearine effluent as far away as Louisville and St. Louis, and he contracted with up and down the East Coast to convert gas works waste into high quality ammonia. In 1867, he discovered a reliable source for potassium ferrocyanide, an essential ingredient in pigmenting paint and printing inks. By the turn of the century, Henry Bower Chemical Manufacturing Company was the largest producer of chromium in the United States. |
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