Men of mark in South Carolina: ideals of American life: a ..., Volume 1
edited by James Calvin Hemphill...1907

Memminger, Allard, M. D. was born September 30, 1854, in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the son of Christopher Gustavus Memminger and Mary Wilkinson Memminger. His father was a lawyer and was the first secretary of the treasury of the Confederate States of America. He was noted for lucidity and intenseness in expression. Doctor Meminger's most distinguished ancestor was his paternal grandfather, Christopher Godfrey Memminger, who was an officer in the Austrian army which fought Napoleon at Wagram. It was due to injuries received in battle that he finally died. Allard Memminger's mother was descended from English ancestors, and his grandfather on this side of the house was a physician.
In youth, Allard Meminger was rather delicate. He was reared in city and country. Manual labor was not demanded of him; he was, however, required to apply himself closely to his books. The influence of his mother upon his character was strong in every way.
Allard Memminger was educated at a private school for boys,taught by Doctor Henry M. Bruns, in Charleston. From this institution, he went, at the earliest age at which matriculation was permitted, to the University of Virginia. Here he took an academic course of three complete sessions. After graduating, he went home, but afterward returned to the university and took a special course in the department of chemistry. He was graduated in all the schools of chemistry, and then returned to his native city and began business as an analytical chemist. In 1878 he entered the Medical College of the State of South Carolina as a student of medicine, continuing meanwhile his business in analytical chemistry, and graduating from that institution in 1880, as a doctor of medicine and surgery. After this he went abroad, visiting the hospitals in Edinburgh, London, Paris, and Vienna, with a view to perfecting himself in the knowledge of medicine and surgery. With the same object, he also visited the Pasteur institute in Paris. While pursuing the profession of an analytical chemist, he became chemist for a number of fertilizer manufacturing plants, constructing for them, in many instances, the acid chambers required in the factories. He conducted, at the same time, a very large analytical business, and was appointed chemist for the state of South Carolina. He was also offered, but declined, a like position in the state of North Carolina.
He is not professor of chemistry, hygiene and clinical, urinary diagnosis in the Medical College of the State of South Carolina; professor of general applied chemistry in the College of Pharmacy of South Carolina; one of the visiting physicians in the city hospital of Charleston; member or ex-member of state, national and international medical, pharmaceutical, scientific and hygienic societies; and corresponding honorary member of the Academie Parisienne Francaise des Iwoens. He has been a member of the state board of pharmaceutical examiners of South Caroina and of the Charleston city board of health. To obtain hygienic data for the governments of the United States and France, he made an examination of the water used by the city of Charleston, a laborious and highly scientific undertaking. He is an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical association of South Carolina. He is author of "Diagnosis by the Urine" (second edition published in 1902); "Qualitative Chemical Analysis." a brief work (second edition issued in 1904); and "Science in the Field," a brochure published by the News and Courier Publishing company, of Charleston. He has written many articles of scientific and medical interest on the subjects of water. climate, and disease of the kidneys; these articles have appeared in many of the leading journals of this country. He has also published a special article on "The true Function of a State Medical Examining Board," which led to a considerable change in the medical laws of South Carolina. The law now in force was, in great measure, drawn from this original article, and was framed by Doctor S. C. Baker, of Sumter, member of the examining board, and Doctor Allard Memminger, of the Medical college.
Doctor Memminger received the gold medal of honor, and a diploma of honor from the Academie Parisienne Francaise des Iwoens, for an account of original research on the use of fluoride of calcium; and, at the request of the American Medical association, he prepared a paper on the use, by himself, of sodium chloride in Bright's disease. He was appointed by the governor as one of the commission in the famous trial of Lavell for wife murder. Lavelle, it will be recalled, was convicted by the jury, but afterwards adjudged of unsound mind and placed in the state penitentiary. In this case Doctor Memmminger wrote the report of the minority of the commission. He is the originator of an important food for invalids, which has been highly recommended by distinguished members of the medical profession. He is also the originator of a table manufacture by Parke, Davis & Company, under the name of "Salt and Iron Table for Anemia." He is now occupied in experimenting with a new compound for the cure of anemjia and neurasthenia.
Doctor Memminger was for years a member of several of the social clubs, including the St. Cecilia society, the Cotillion club of Charleston,and the Charleston club, and he is now a member of the new Commercial club of Charleston. Although a Democrat, he has never been in politics; he has, however, been examined as a expert before committees of the stae senate and house of representative of South Carolina, and before the United States Naval committee in Washington.
Doctor Memminger has never been married. For the advancement of social well-being, his advice is: "Train the consciences of men and women in the highest manner, and then there will be less need for so-called laws, which can always be evaded."


Memminger would later marry Margaret Coleman. The occasion would post date the biography written in 1907.