Was Benedict Arnold a druggist

Answer 1

Arnold was an apothecary, something like a compounding pharmacist today. Many prescriptions and medicines had to be mixed. Arnold was raised by an uncle in that business and learned the trade, and opened his own shop in Connecticut. He had a wife and children he left there when he went off to the Revolution. And, a few years later he married the prettiest young girl in Philadelphia, the daughter of one of the richest Tories in town. She was used to the finer things in life, of course, and had been the girlfriend of Major John Andre of the British Army, an aide to General Howe, during the nine months that the British occupied Philadelphia in 1777-78. How much Peggy influenced Arnold, and how much was due to his own bitterness and greed, is a question which cannot be answered.