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After the Civil War had ended, a long period of economic prosperity began. In 1865, William Henry’s father Samuel Bradhurst Schieffelin retired from the company. The company was renamed W. H. Schieffelin & Co, a name which existed from 1865 to 1894.
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At the time of William Henry's military service during the period that the siege of Suffolk took place he participated in various engagements almost every day. Despite this, William Henry remained on the board of Schieffelin.
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William Henry Schieffelin was fond of shooting and fishing, of driving fast horses and farming. He was good-looking and sang charmingly and presented a fine figure as a cavalry officer in the Civil War.
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Under the direction of William Henry, Schieffelin set up a laboratory for chemical and pharmaceutical substances in 1882. The lab was one of the most modern in the United States at that time.
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William Henry Schieffelin joined the Schieffelin company in 1860 at the age of 24. He was the 4th generation in a direct line of succession to
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Office and Warehouse of W. H. Schieffelin & Co. 170 to 172 William Street, on the corner of Beekman Street in Manhattan.
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In the 1880s, Schieffelin was the first and exclusive distributor of the following pharmaceuticals in America:
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Jacob Scheuffelin, currently in Pennsylvania … Five Hundred Years of the Schieffelin Family
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he left his regiment, commissioned to recruit men for military service as Major of the
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in 1862, William Henry Schieffelin was drafted to the front with his
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William Henry Schieffelin married Mary Jay (1845–1916) in 1863.
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New York City
Samuel Bradhurst Schieffelin
John Jay
Sarah Livingston Jay
John Jay
William Jay
Stuyvesant Square
Bedford
John Jay Homestead
American Civil War
7th New York Infantry Regiment
Baltimore
1st New York Mounted Rifles
Wool
siege of Suffolk

Jacob Schieffelin
William Street
Phenacetin
Sulfonmethane
Aspirin
William Jay Schieffelin
St. George's Church
Stuyvesant Square
Union League Club
City Club of New York

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