- Title
- Historical Raleigh. With sketches of Wake County (from 1771) and its important towns; descriptive, biographical, educational, industrial, religious.
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- Date
- 1913
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- Creator
- ["Amis, Moses N. (Moses Neal), 1849-"]
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- Place
- ["Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, United States"]
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- Local Call Number
- 975.6551 A517 1913 (Text)
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Historical Raleigh. With sketches of Wake County (from 1771) and its important towns; descriptive, biographical, educational, industrial, religious.
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SKETCHES OK WAKE COUNTY
71
W. IT. Williams, in 1812, kept an apothecary (as drug stores
were then termed, after the custom in England), and advertised
that he “solicits a continuance of public patronage, either in the
common way of making an apothecary of one’s stomach, or upon
the new plan of no cure no pay,” and adds that “the honest, tem¬
perate and industrious poor would be granted favors if desired.
Others who had opened business by this time were Benjamin
S. King, William White, John G. Morehead, and William W.
Taylor.
Dr. F. J. Haywood, the elder, was one of the earlier inhabit¬
ants. He was torn in Baleigh in 1803. No man in his day was
more identified with the general welfare of the people or who •
contributed more to their substantial good than the late Dr.
F. J. Haywood. In the practice of his profession he became one
of the most eminent physicians in the State. His character and
ability as a medical man was no greater, however, than that,
which he sustained in his private relations, for in these he was
distinguished as one who revered the golden rule and who never
turned a deaf ear to the cry of the distressed, from whatever
source it was heard. He married, in 1831, Martha Helen Whita¬
ker. She passed away on the 22d of July, 1902. She had many
warm friends, especially among the older inhabitants. At her
death she was ninety-one years of age.
Randolph Webb’s apothecary was established about 1820, on
the corner of Fayetteville and Hargett streets. Subsequently the
proprietors were Alfred Williams and Dr. F. J. Haywood. Dur¬
ing the continuance of this firm, in 1836, Mr. J. Ruffin Wil¬
liams, then a youth of sixteen years, entered the store as clerk,
continuing as such for several years, until 1840, when he became
one of the proprietors with his brother and Dr. Haywood. This
business had the longest existence of any firm ever established in
Raleigh. Dr. Haywood was the father of the late Dr. F. J.
Haywood. Mr. Williams was the father of Mr. Robert I. Wil¬
liams, one of the capital city’s well-known druggists.
One of the best-known men to the older inhabitants of Raleigh
was Dr. Thomas D. Hogg. He was the pioneer in many useful
enterprises inaugurated here and in the State, although some of
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