Brazelton Hotel - 100 North Main

BRAZELTON, JERICHO, BIRD, SATTERTHWAITE

Posted By: Pat Ryan White (email)
Date: 1/20/2012 at 07:57:28

THE BRAZELTON
100 North Main, Mount Pleasant, IA

The Brazelton hotel corner has always been of interest, and the change in the drug firm of J. H. Jericho & Co., revives long forgotten events. Few will remember the old Brazelton bank, which occupied the corner. The present space occupied by the drug store is "L" shaped. Seventy-five years ago the corner room was occupied by the small bank. This bank afterwards became a state bank and later the National State which occupied the space now used by the Spurgeon store.

At the rear of the bank was the office and apothecary shop of Dr. Wellington Bird, who established himself here about the first of 1850. When the bank moved across the street, a meat market was operated in the vacated room for a few months. This was followed by the expansion of the Bird drug store. Mr. H. T. Bird followed his father in the drug business, then J. W. Satterthwaite bought in. Later, Mr. Bird sold out his interest and entered the furniture business. During this time the drug store took over the room occupied by the bank, giving the drug store the room it has occupied since. In 1884, Mr. John Jericho entered the employ of Mr. Satterthwaite as clerk, and in 1889 together with his father, Mr. Gustave Jericho, the drug firm of J. H. Jericho & Co. was formed. Some years later the elder Jericho retired and in 1901, Mr. G. B. Jericho entered the firm and continued with his brother for thirty-five years. It is said that in the basement of the store still stands solidly the foundation of the old bank vault.

['Mt. Pleasant News', The Bystander's Notes, Thursday, July 2, 1936]