Biography of 	Grambois, Augustin Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller September 2000

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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 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.