W. H. TORBERT 1845-1922

TORBERT, MASON, SAMPSON

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Date: 5/1/2018 at 08:47:52

From
"The History of Dubuque County. Iowa"
http://members.tripod.com/~Doreen_3/DBIONOP.htm

W.H. TORBERT, wholesale druggist, 576 Main street, Dubuque, warehouse 445 and 447 White street; the drug business now carried on by the subject of this sketch was established by Timothy Mason, in 1837; he was succeeded in the business by P.C. Sampson; Mr. Torbert was a partner of Mr. Sampson, and succeeded him in the business; Mr. Torbert is a native of Camden, Oneida Co., N.Y.; and was born in 1845; he came West to Dubuque in 1864, and in 1868 located here permanently; he carries on both wholesale and retail business; he has by his ability and energy built up a large trade, which extends through Iowa in Minnesota, Nebraska, Dakota, Illinois and Wisconsin; he gives special attention to the retail prescription department of his store, and the perfection it has attained we should expect for two reasons- the first one is the almost unparalleled accuracy with which prescriptions have been put up by this house; it being a fact that in 100,000 prescriptions put up in the last twenty years, no error of an important or serious character has been made; secondly, every patient and customer knows that their medicine will be compounded with pure goods at the lowest possible prices.