He then assumed the name of F. Donald Coster and headed the pro-sporous hair tonic firm of Girard Company which became merged with McKesson & Robbins in 1927.
In the American Who's Who, he provided himself with a brilliant biography under the name of Coster.
Strangely enough, while he milked the crude drug division of his firm, he spent huge sums to increase the efficiency of the remainder of Mc-Kesson & Robbins, Inc.
In the American Who's Who he listed that he was born at Washington in 1884 and was the son of Frank Donald and Marie Girard. He also said that he was a Ph.D. of the University of Heidelberg, 1909, and a M.D., 1911.—Uníted Press.
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