Engelbach, Theodore

Submitted by Mike Miller

An enterprise which attains to the dignity of an institution, unique of its kind in New Orleans, is the New Orleans Homoeopathic pharmacy, owned by Theodore Engelbach. Mr. Engelbach was born in Charleston, S. C., in July, 1856, and was educated in New York. After graduating from the New York College of Pharmacy, he came, in November, 1877, to New Orleans, as a representative of Boerick & Tafel, manufacturers of homoeopathic remedies, New York, and managed a store here for that firm until 1888, when he returned to New York, intending to remain there; but before the close of the same year he came back to New Orleans on a business trip, which he had planned, and after his arrival was taken ill with typhoid fever and detained. In the following March he bought the business he had formerly managed for Boerick & Tafal, and has since conducted it with increasing success, having removed to his present location in 1889, and the enterprise is now recognized as the leading one of its kind in the South, including as it does the largest of its peculiar class, made up of a full line of homoeopathic preparations, and medical and surgical supplies generally. Mr. Engelbach married Miss Emily Maier, daughter of the late Emile Maier, founder of the Germania Insurance company, New Orleans, La.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), pp. 400-403. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.