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Lyons Drug |
Lyons Drug
Nauvoo, Illinois |
| | The Lyon Drug is a treasure trove of many interesting and unusual items. It served as an apothecary and variety store, providing residents of Nauvoo with nearly everything they needed in this frontier community. Here you will find a device for pulling teeth (the druggist served as a dentist also), hair dye (for men only), a pill making machine, and all varieties of herbs. In the dry goods department you will see such things as eyeglasses, porcelain china and pottery, firearms and beehives. They also carried whale and sperm oil. Many residents brought goods they had produced to barter for things they needed. |
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Rear of Lyon Drug
Nauvoo, Illinois |
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Biography |
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Windsor P. Lyon was born February 8, 1809 at Orwell, Addison County, Vermont. He married Sylvia P. Sessions in 1838. He was baptized in 1832 in New York and endowed in the Nauvoo Temple on February 3, 1846. | |
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The Lyon Family |
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Windsor and Sylvia Sessions Lyon owned and operated the store from the time they arrived in Nauvoo until they left with the Saints. Four children were born to the couple here in Nauvoo, but sadly, three of their children died before they reached the age of three. Joseph Smith spoke at their oldest daughter, Marian's funeral, giving comfort to the parents, and reassuring us all that we shall, one day, be reunited with our loved ones. Windsor died in Iowa City in 1849, but Sylvia and her children made the journey west in 1854 with her brother who was returning from a mission in the British Isles. | |
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Interior of the Lyons Drug
Nauvoo, Illinois
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Advertisement: "Lyon's Drug Store Second Arrival" |
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RECEIVED, by the steamers Osage, Oak and Rapids, at Lyon's old establishment on the corner of Main and Hotchkiss streets, a splendid stock of New and Genuine GOODS direct from the City of New York, and Philadelphia; and now offered low for cash at wholesale and retail. The stock consists in part as follows: Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery, Glass, and Harwares. Books and Stationery, Drugs and Medicines, Paints and Dye stuffs, Boots, Shoes, Military Goods; and a thousand other articles too numerous to mention. Those wishing to make good investments with their money will do well to call at Lyons' cheap cash store, on the corner of Main and Hotchkiss streets. | |
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Barrels containg staples in the drug store
Nauvoo, Illinois
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A senior missionary tells about the history of Lyons Drug Store
Nauvoo, Illiinois
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Kitchen and dining area in the living quarters
Nauvoo, Illinois
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Reference |
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"Nauvoo Neighbor," 12 July 1843. | | |
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| Ray Hollenbeck hollenbeck49@earthlink.net 521 North 5th Street Burlington Iowa 52601-5126 United States of America Phone: (319) 752-0106 |
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