Rudolph SCHWEGLER owned a drug store in Lafayette, as Adina noted, from at
least 1876 to 1900. It was located at 50 Main Street in 1877/78, on the
north side of the square; in 1899/1900 it had moved to 308 Main Street, and
was listed as "Druggist, Paints, Oils and Glass" in the city directory.In
1912 he moved his family to Oregon, so I would assume he sold the drug
store.
He was born in Switzerland in 1837 and came to this country with his parents
in 1855 and to Lafayette by 1860. (His sister was my great grandmother.) He
first worked in the drug store of Henry Lawrence in Lafayette. In 1860 he
was a clerk. In the 1870 census he gave his occupation as druggist. Part of
the time he was in partnership with his brother, William Schwegler. In 1876
a man purchased chloroform and cotton batting at Schweglers' drug store
which the man used when he committed suicide rather spectacularly in a room
at the Lahr Hotel by using a homemade guillotine.
The Schweglers were part of the German community, so perhaps they knew a
druggist with the German-sounding name of Kaiser.
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