P.R. Jones
Company Names, addresses, dates: 1
  P.R. Jones, 408 Main Street, Danville VA (c.1881-c.1892)
  P.R. Jones Sons, 408 Main Street, Danville VA (c.1902-c.1908)
  Jones Temple Pharmacy, 433 Main (Masonic Temple), Danville VA (c.1908)
Notes:
The dates and addresses shown above are from a limited number of Danville City directories,
with lots of gaps in the years, so I don't know the exact dates when things changed. There
were multiple members of the Jones family running those drug stores.
Pleasant Richard Jones (1840-1899)2 was likely the first Jones family member
to run a drug store in Danville.
rdricketts blog
shows that there was a Danville bottle embossed with "P R Jones".
The 1910 US Census lists his 2 sons,
William H. Jones (1872-1935)3 and
Pleasant Richard Jones Jr. (1874-1911)4
as druggists, with William as the employer and Pleasant Jr as a worker.
The 1902-1908 city directories refer to the drug store as "P.R. Jones' Sons", although the
residential section also refers to it as "William H Jones & Co" during some of those years.
The 1908 city directory lists a second Jones drug store, the "Jones' Temple Pharmacy" at
433 Main street. I don't have access to any city directories between 1908 and 1917, so the
Jones drug stores apparently went out of business sometime between those 2 years.
Note that there was also a
Jones Drug Store
in nearby Schoolfield, which was run by Ebbert Ashby Jones. I have not found any evidence
that he was related to the Jones family members listed above. The Schoolfield drugstore was
only about 1 mile away from the Danville drugstore locations described above.
More information about Danville drug stores is available at
rdricketts blog.
Bottles:
This postcard is postmarked 1908, and it depicts the Masonic Temple that was built in 1920 and burned down in 1920. The lower right portion of the temple that has a sign that says "JONES TEMPLE PHARMACY". According to rdricketts blog, that location used to be Henry A. Wiseman's , Temple Pharmacy, until it was sold to P.R. Jones and sons about 1905. | |
This is a snippet from an 1894 Sanborn Fire Insurance map, showing the drugstore at address 433 Main Street. This address was part of the Masonic Temple, shown in the postcard above. | |
This is a snippet from an 1894 Sanborn Fire Insurance map, showing the drugstore at address 408 Main Street. |