Burke Archer
Company Names, addresses, dates:
  Archer & Co, 153 Main Street, Norfolk VA (1870-1877) 1,2
  Archer & Co, 132 Main Street corner Bank Street, Norfolk VA (1879-1880) 1,2
  Burke Archer, 6 Bank Street, Norfolk VA (1880-1895) 1,2
Notes:
Burke Archer (1837-1897) 3
is listed in the 1869 Norfolk city directory as a chemist, working for
Seal & Newton. Starting in the 1870 city directories, he had his own
drug store called "Archer & Co".1
I'm not sure who his partner was, but the 1870 residential section of
the Norfolk directory listed him with "Archer, Smith & Co.", so he may
have had a partner named Smith. 1
In 1879, there was an announcement that "Archer & Co" at the corner
of Main and Bank Streets was being dissolved by mutual consent, and
that Burke Archer was to continue the business at the same location
and name. But in subsequent years that Norfolk directories list the
name as "Burke Archer" without the "& Co". 1,2
The last year Archer's drug store appears in the Norfolk directories
is 18951. Archer passed away in 18973.