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J.J. Jewett, druggist
…On September 22, 1859, the editor of the Clayton County (Garnavillo) Journal noted that an “old friend” from Dubuque, Mr. J.J. Jewett, had set up a “splendid” drugstore at McGregor. The editor noted that Mr. Jewett had “many years experience” in the East and was without a doubt a “good-druggist.”
G.S. Akin, druggist
McGregor was a highly competitive town in which to enter the drug business in 1859. Two years earlier, on May 1, 1857, the North Iowa Times carried the advertisement of G.S. Akin and Company’s New Drug Store near the Post Office in McGregor. In addition to drugs and medicine, paints and putty, soap and oil, Akin advertised some “nice chewing tobacco” and fine “Havanna Cigars.” This advertisement, originally inserted in the Times in 1856, indicated Akin was prepared to meet all competitors.Country merchants and Physicians are invited not to pass us on their way to Dubuque or Chicago, as we are determined to sell our goods at living prices. We buy our goods for low sharp pay and we think we can satisfy anyone as to the reasonableness of our profits and sales. Will the Public do us the favor to command our services in this line of business. Orders per mail accompanied by good references, and on short notice promptly filled and goods forwarded as directed.
Wood & Brother, patent medicine agents
In addition to Akin and Jewet, little McGregor could boast other druggists. On May 29, 1861, the North Iowa Times carried the advertisement of Wood & Brother stating that “We are Wholesale Agents for all the popular Patent Medicines of the day.”…~source: William J. Peterson, “The Civil War and After”, The Palimpsest, June 1969, Pages 341 & 342
~contributed by Errin Wilker~*~*~