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This is a clear 6.5" bottle embossed: horizontal: "THE SEAL OF QUALITY" written around a mortle & pestle, inside 8-sided shape & circle vertical: Landon & Moss / UNION STATION / CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. |
Landon & Moss
Company Names, addresses, dates: 1
F.P. Landon & Co, 731 W Main Street, Charlottesville VA (1912)
Landon & Moss, 731 W Main Street, Charlottesville VA (1914)
Moss & Miller, 731 W Main Street, Charlottesville VA (1916-1924)
Moss Pharmacy, 731 W Main Street, Charlottesville VA (1927-1934)
Notes:
Landon & Moss was Frank P. Landon and Eugene W. Moss1.
Francis "Frank" Patterson Landon (1868-1934)2 was the son of
G. H. Landon, who was also a druggist. They ran the Tazwell Drug Co in Tazewell VA
in the 1890s with the father as the manager and the son as the only graduate
druggist in town.3
The 1900 US Census has Frank Landon living in Tazwell as a druggist, but the 1910
Census had him listed as a druggist in West Virginia. The 1912 Charlottesville
city directory listed him as running his own drugstore at 731 Main Street. The
1914 directory had him teamed up with Moss at that same location. By 1916, Moss
had taken over the drugstore with a new parner (Miller), and Frank was no longer
listed in the Charlottesville directories. Apparently he got divorced in 1920,
with the cause listed as "cruelty & desertion"4.
Eugene William Moss (1874-1940)5 was listed as a salesman for a
grocery store in the 1910 US Census. By 1914 he had teamed up with Frank Landon,
who renamed his store to the Landon & Moss Drug store. By 1916 Frank had dropped
out, and Eugene partnered up with
Guy Miller Jr.
and changed the name to the Moss & Miller drug store.
Sometime between 1924 and 1927, Miller dropped out (went to work with his father's
drug store), and the store was just called the "Moss Pharmacy". All these years
the store was at the same address, 731 W Main Street. By 1936, there was no longer
a drug store at that address. Eugene was still listed as a druggist in the 1936
city directory, but it did not say what drug store he worked at.
By 1940 Eugene had been working at a drug store in Danville VA, when he died after
getting hit by a car6.
Landon & Moss Bottles:
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This is a clear 6.5" bottle embossed: horizontal: "THE SEAL OF QUALITY" written around a mortle & pestle, inside 8-sided shape & circle vertical: Landon & Moss / UNION STATION / CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. |