B.L. Pollard


Company Names, addresses, dates: 1
  Benjamin L. Pollard, 257 Old street, Petersburg VA (1876)
  Benjamin L. Pollard, 263 Old street, Petersburg VA (1877)

Notes:
 Benjamin Loyal Pollard (1850-1877)2 was listed with occupation "Drug App", living with druggist O.P. Hare in the 1870 US Census. I suspect that "App" meant "apprentice", and that Hare was mentoring him.

It seemed like things were going well for him, as he had opened his own drug store on Old Street by 1876. 1

But in 1877, he died from being thrown out of a horse drawn buggy after the horse took fright from a pile of rubbish.3


Bottles:
pollard_01 This is a clear, 4.2" bottle embossed:
vertical: (mortar & pestle) / B. L. POLLARD / DRUGGIST / PETERSBURG VA
base: 4


1 Petersburg VA city directories for years: 1866,70,72,76-77,79,82,86,88,91,93,95,97,99,1901,03,05,07,09,11,13,15,17-18,20-22,24,27,29,31,33,35,37,39,41,43,48,50,52,54-55,57,59
2 Find-a-grave entry for Benjamin L. Pollard
3 The Daily Dispatch, 19-Sep-1877, p.4 (obituary for Bengamin Loyal Pollard)


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