Grambois, Augustin

Submitted by Mike Miller

A reference to the drug trade of New Orleans suggests at once the house of which Augustin Grambois is the proprietor, which, either from its long establishment, or from the celebrity attained by the numerous specialties designed and prepared by its proprietor, has become one of the best and most popular known in the trade. Mr. Grambois was born in the city in which he now lives in 1851, but his literary education was obtained in the schools of Nice, France, his pharmaceutical studies being pursued at Marseilles, from an institution of which city he graduated.

After eight year. spent in fitting himself for a practical business life he returned to New Orleans, and in order to obtain a practical insight into the business methods of his profession, he clerked for one year, after which he took charge of the drug establishment owned by his father. His present establishment was purchased from Mr. Gourdon, which after purchasing he greatly improved, and he has it arranged in a tasteful and convenient manner. His stock is always full and complete, pure, fresh and of standard quality, embracing drugs, chemicals and pharmaceutical compounds, toilet articles, perfumery, druggists' sundries and the usual complement of the first-class pharmacy. Mr. Grambois enjoys the respect and esteem of both professional and lay circles, and has an abhorrence of quackery in any form, entertaining no faith whatever in the nostruma and no-called specifics for apparently incurable ailments. He is a member of the State Association of Pharmacists as well as the Pharmaceutical Association of New Orleans, and also of the United State Pharmaceutical association.

 In the Crescent city on the 28th of August, 1876, he led to the altar Miss [Myrthe] Llorens [first letter indeterminate]. His father, Eugene Grambois, was born in France, where he graduated as a pharmacist. He subsequently came to the United States, settling in New Orleans, where he again graduated the 1st of October, 1838, and for half a century exercised his profession with signal success, and was considered as one of the most eminent druggists of his time. He died in the land of his birth in 1882, an earnest member of the Catholic church. His children numbered five, all of whom reside in Europe with the exception of the subject of this sketch, and one child who is deceased.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), p. 451. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.