O.C. Cole
Company Names, addresses, dates:
  O.C. Cole, Corner Main & Davis Streets, Culpeper VA (1885-1886)1
  O.C. Cole, Corner East & Davis Streets, Culpeper VA (1886-1888)2,3
Notes:
Orville Carson Cole (1860-1928)4 was a drug store owner.
He started out with a drug store in Culpeper on the corner of Main and Davis Streets.
I'm not sure which corner this was, but apparently his building burned in April 18861.
He had a new building errected on the corner of East and Davis Streets, and moved in by December
of that year.2
In January 1888, it was reported that he had mysteriously disappeared just as he was about
to be married. He returned a few days later just long enough to sell his store to his brother,
then he left town again. It was also reported that he had been engaged to a young lady at
Manassas, in addition to the woman he was about to marry in Culpeper.5
I don't know how long his brother held the drugstore, but I don't think it was very long, because
by March of 1888 the drugstore was owned by
Robert B. Macoy 3.
In later years (1910, 1920) the US Census lists Cole as a druggist in Memphis Tennesee, so
apparently he persued his career there. It also lists him as married to a woman named Willie
May, so apparently he eventually went through with a marraige.
Bottles:
This is a clear 3.9" bottle embossed: vertical: O.C. COLE / DRUGGIST / CULPEPER, VA. |