Dr. N. Wayt
Company Names, addresses, dates:
  Dr N. Wayt & Bro, 16 W Main St., Staunton VA (1866-1904) 1
Notes:
Dr. N. Wayt & Bro refers to
Doctor Newton Wayt (1837-1904)2
and his brother
John Howard Wayt1.
Dr Wayt was a surgeon for the Confederate army in the Civil War. In 1866, he
teamed up with his brother and opened a drug store in Staunton. 1
Advertisements for the Dr. N. Wayt & Bro drugstore appear in Mary Baldwin
College yearbooks between 1892 and 1901. They list the address as
16 W Main Street. I believe Main Street is now called Beverly Street.
He was described as 5'8" tall with grey hair in his 1890 application for
a passport. A 1904 city directory listed the drugstore (still called
"Dr N. Wayt & Bro", even though his brother died in 1901), so apparently
Dr Wayt stayed in business up until the year he died. That directory
entry lists
William C. Marshall
as the manager of the drugstore.
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