R.L. Gardner


Company Names, addresses, dates: 1
  R.L. Gardner, North King near Queen Street, Hampton VA (1902)
  R.L. Gardner, 13 North King Street, Hampton VA (1903-1905)
  R.L. Gardner, 13-15 North King Street, Hampton VA (1906)
  Gardner & Hudgins, 13-15 North King Street, Hampton VA (1907-1908)
  R.L. Gardner, 15 east King Street, Hampton VA (1910)

Notes:
Robert Lee Gardner (1870-?)2 took over the drugstore previously owned by D.W. Mahone3.

Gardner apparently went bankrupt in January of 19084, and in February his drugstore was put up for sale5.
But an April 1903 newspaper said he was granted a discharge of his bankruptcy6. I don't know if this means he didn't have to sell his store, or if it means his store was sold and now the bankruptcy punishment was complete.
In any case, he was listed as a druggist again in 1910, but after that he seems to have moved away from Hampton, as a 1911 Norfolk city directory listed him as a druggist in that city.


Gardner Bottles:

gardner_01 This is a clear 4.5" bottle embossed:
horizontal below neck: 3ii
vertical: Gardener / HAMPTON, / VA.
base: C L G CO / 2


1 Newport News / Hampton city directories, years: 1902,03,04,05,06,08,09,10,11,18
2 U.S. Census for the year 1910 listed "Robert L. Gardner" age 40 in Hampton VA as a druggist
3 "The Druggists Circular and Chemical Gazette", Volume 47, Issue: February 1903, page xix.
4 Newport News "Daily Press" newspaper, Jan 15, 1908, page 9 (Notice of first meeting of creditors)
5 Newport News "Daily Press" newspaper, Feb 21, 1908, page 7 (Trustee's Sale of Valuable Stock of Goods)
6 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk VA) newspaper, Apr 23, 1908, page 3 (Discharges in Bankruptcy)


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