1902
- Charles Henry Huls born.
1904
- Frederick Eugene Huls born.
1921
- Charles Henry Huls graduates from Logan High School and enrolls at Ohio State University.
- Charley is named business manager for the O.S.U. freshman magazine, The Phoenix.
- Charley is announced as editor of the 1924 O.S.U. Makio yearbook.
- Frederick Eugene Huls graduates from Logan High School and enrolls at Ohio State University.
- Instructor William E. Keyser purchases strychnine for O.S.U. dispensary.
- Tuesday, Jan. 27: Robert H. Ross of Bellevue, Ohio becomes ill. He is diagnosed with food poisoning at the time.
- Thursday, Jan. 29: Timothy J. McCarthy of Fremont, Ohio becomes suddenly ill, but he is diagnosed with "hysteria."
- Friday, Jan. 30: Harold E. Gillig of Tiffan, Ohio is diagnosed with indigestion or "hysteria." Not hospitalized. (Fermant T. Brasseur almost takes a poison capsule while watching Harold.)
- Charley Huls of Logan, Ohio, has an abscessed tooth pulled.
- Louis Fish obtains R&Ws for his friend David Isaac Pushkin from the OSU student dispensary.
- Saturday, Jan. 31: Charley Huls goes to Dr. Wingert at the infirmary, gets a prescription for R&Ws, and has it filled at the dispensary. He collapses after taking at least one pill about 8 p.m. and dies at approximately 10:30 p.m. (Fred E. Huls almost takes a poison capsule while watching Charley.)
- Sunday, Feb. 1: David Puskin of Canton, Ohio collapses and dies within 20 minutes.
- Monday, Feb. 2: Dr. W.G. Rhoten, Hocking County Health Commissioner, is refused entrance into the Huls home in Logan. He wanted to check, or test, Charley's body for spinal meningitis.
- Tuesday, Feb. 3: Charley Huls is buried at Forest Rose Cemetery in Lancaster, Ohio.
- George Delbert Thompson, also of Canton, collapses and almost dies.
- Wednesday, Feb. 4: David Puskin is buried at Canton Hebrew Cemetery in Canton, Ohio.
- The university reports:
- All medicine which might contain strychnine and issued by the dispensary is called in.
- Further issuance of such medication from the dispensary is stopped.
- A complete chemical investigation of the medicine in question is ordered.
- Analysis of the stomach (contents) of David I. Puskin is (finally) made. (Charley Huls was never autopsied since he was already buried.)
- Thursday, Feb. 5: Dean Clair A. Dye of the College of Pharmacy discovers a strychnine bottle on a shelf in the campus dispensary. Later it was determined to be the 1924 purchase by instructor Keyser.
- Thursday, Feb. 5?: Edward A. Byron of Cincinnati, Ohio also becomes ill. (I am still trying to find more about Edward.)
- Saturday, Feb. 7: The OSU Board of Trustees meet and the following recommendation is unanimously adopted:
- RESOLVED, That the Trustees of the University express their profound regret at the unfortunate circumstances resulting in the death of two students, Charles Henry Huls and David Isaac Puskin, and the serious and almost fatal illness of others. The Trustees also place on record their approval of the promptness and care exercised by the University officials in their efforts to disclose all the facts. They also approve the placing at the disposal of the public authorities all available means and facilities of the University, by which may be ascertained all the facts pertaining to the case and the location of any responsibility for the deplorable situation. The Trustees further express their approval and hearty appreciation of the diligence with which the city and county officials and their assistants are conducting the investigation.
- Monday, Feb. 9, 1925: More than 200 students of the College of Pharmacy sign an informal, but heartfelt, petition expressing confidence in the administration of Dean Dye.
- Louis Fish is arrested and held for one night before he is released.
- Wednesday, Feb. 11: Ohio State University closes its internal investigation into the poisonings. City Police Prosecutor John J. Chester, Jr., says he will confer with Attorney General Charles C. Crabbe.
- Saturday, Feb. 14: Chester and State Pharmacy Board secretary M.N. Ford meet with Crabbe who tells them to continue the investigation.
- Tuesday, Feb. 17: Governor Vic Donahey orders an investigation of methods employed by the State Pharmacy Board.
- Monday, Feb. 23: investigation by the State Pharmacy Board begins, headed by Ford.
- Fred E. Huls is announced as editor of the 1926 OSU Makio yearbook.
- May 2: investigation by the State Pharmacy Board is nearly done, according to Ford.
- Oct. 3: Ford plans to submit a report "soon" to Governor Donahey covering eight months' investigation.
- Oct. 7: Ford's report will not be made for another five weeks, the Governor's office announces.
- June: A.E. Huls learns about the production of "Can't Afford It" at the Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association Convention to be held July 19-23 at Cedar Point, Ohio.
- June 25: Ohio Board of Pharmacy approves the report prepared by Ford.
- July 1: The State Board of Pharmacy reports to Governor Donahey that "unknown persons" deliberately mixed capsules containing poison with those containing quinine.
- July 2: Governor Donahey approves Ford's report that "deliberate" acts of an unknown person, or persons, were responsible. However, the governor says the investigation will continue as long as he is in office.
- Fred E. Huls does not return to O.S.U. for his senior year.
- April 19: The Ohio State Sundries Claim Board vote to allow:
- $7,500 to Alpheus Eugene Huls, Logan, Ohio.
- $7,500 to Louis Puskin, Canton, Ohio.
- $2,500 to George Delbert Thompson, Canton, Ohio.
- $1,500 to Timothy McCarthy, Fremont, Ohio.
- Oct. 1: A.E. Huls writes a promissory letter (a legal claim against his estate as provided in his will) stating he received $10,000 from the State of Ohio for Charley's death.
- Feb. 6: Fred E. Huls and Alice Thelma Hamilton are married in Clearwater, Florida. Their first child is born nine months later.
- Jan. 14: Governor Donahey leaves the office of governor to later become an Ohio state senator.
- April 3: Payment of $2,500 to Harold E. Gillig for injuries from poisoning is authorized in the sundries claims bill submitted to the House.
- A.E. Huls (July 31) and Anna R. Huls (Aug. 5) die from injuries caused by an automobile accident, not knowing who killed their son.
- The remains of both Anna and Charley Huls are disinterred from the Troxel plot and moved to a new location to be with their parents, A.E. and Anna R. Huls.
- April 23: Walter Harrison Huls dies, not knowing who killed his half-brother. He is buried in the plot with his father, half-siblings, and stepmother.
- Nov. 6: Bill Arter writes in The Columbus Dispatch about a suspicious pharmacy student with strychnine in 1925.
- Fred E. Huls writes a letter to Benjamin Balshone, R.Ph. detailing his memories about his brother Charley's death.
- January 13: Fred E. Huls dies, not knowing who killed his brother.
- Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Park Dietz says in the Columbus Dispatch it feels rather than an accident, a prank, or an attempt as mass murder, that the poisonings were likely targeting a single individual, with intent to murder that person and use the poisonings as cover.
- Dr. Robert Buerki, professor emeritus at The Ohio State University, writes about the poisonings for his paper, Prescription for Death: The 1925 Ohio State Poisoning Case, which he presents at the annual meeting for The Ohio Academy of Medical History.
2022
- Dr. Robert Buerki's paper, Prescription for Death, is published in the History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 64, Issue 1.
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