C.H. Goldsborough


Company Names, addresses, dates1:
  C.H. Goldsborough, 624-626 North Main St., Danville VA (c.1894-c.1898)

Notes:
Dr. Charles Henry Goldsborough (1866-1941) was a druggist.2,3
I got the following information from a descendant of C.H. Goldsborough:
Charles H. Goldsborough was licensed to be a pharmacist in VA in 1887. He worked as a clerk in C.D. Gitt's drugstore from 1887-1893, then bought that store in 1894. He moved to Lynchburg in 1898, until he moved to Culpepper in 1904, where he owned a drugstore from 1904-1929.

More information about Danville drug stores is available at rdricketts blog.

Bottles:

goldsborough_01 This is a clear 3.6" bottle embossed:
vertical: C.H. GOLDSBOROUGH / DRUGGIST / DANVILLE, VA.
base: *** / W T & CO / D / U S A / PAT JAN 5 1892


1 Early Danville Drugstores on rdricketts blog.
2 Find-a-grave index for Charles Henry Goldsborough, b:25-Aug-1866, d:24-Oct-1941, Culpeper VA
3 Richmond Times Dispatch, Oct-26-1941, page 32, obituary




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