Chemist, Author. He was founder of the Battle and Company Chemists' Corporation in St. Louis, which successfully produced several drugs including a sleep aide, which contained Cannabis. Born one of ten children of Rev. Amos Johnston and Margaret Hearne Parker Battle, he graduated from the Wilson Collegiate Seminary in Wilson, North Carolina. First, he found employment with Western-Union Telegram Company. He and Dr. Joseph Lawrence, had a drug store by March 28, 1863 in Wilson before going west in 1875 to Missouri, where he began the manufacture of proprietary and patented drugs. He was taught the chemistry of the pharmaceutical business from Lawrence. His activities in this work rapidly expanded into the corporation which bore his name. Beside the pharmaceutical business, he was an author. Among his writings were his 294-page "Why I Am Not a Roman Catholic" in 1908 and his 1911 autobiographical, "Tributes to My Father and Mother and Some Stories of My Life," which is still available in the 21st century. Being accepted in the social circles of St. Louis, he served from 1889 to 1893 as Charity Commissioner of St. Louis under former Mayor Edward Noonan. On October 21, 1873 he married Laura Lee and had a daughter.
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Chemist, Author. He was founder of the Battle and Company Chemists' Corporation in St. Louis, which successfully produced several drugs including a sleep aide, which contained Cannabis. Born one of ten children of Rev. Amos Johnston and Margaret Hearne Parker Battle, he graduated from the Wilson Collegiate Seminary in Wilson, North Carolina. First, he found employment with Western-Union Telegram Company. He and Dr. Joseph Lawrence, had a drug store by March 28, 1863 in Wilson before going west in 1875 to Missouri, where he began the manufacture of proprietary and patented drugs. He was taught the chemistry of the pharmaceutical business from Lawrence. His activities in this work rapidly expanded into the corporation which bore his name. Beside the pharmaceutical business, he was an author. Among his writings were his 294-page "Why I Am Not a Roman Catholic" in 1908 and his 1911 autobiographical, "Tributes to My Father and Mother and Some Stories of My Life," which is still available in the 21st century. Being accepted in the social circles of St. Louis, he served from 1889 to 1893 as Charity Commissioner of St. Louis under former Mayor Edward Noonan. On October 21, 1873 he married Laura Lee and had a daughter.
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