The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-06-12

gan to sell, he increased the manufac.
ture, and established agencies, in al
cases leaving them with booksellers
never allowing druggists to sell then
as his agents. After awhile he found
the druggists were selling more than
he was manufacturing, and an inves-
tigation proved that they were n imi.
tation article. This gave him good
chance to caution the public against
counterfeits. In time he opened a
central Office in. Broadway, above
Warren Street, which, fora long time,
remained his principal Office. At
length he made terms with the drug
gists, and the pills became regular
article on the price list of wholesale
houses. Afterwards site was pur-
chased at Yonkers, where factory
was built, which supplied the demand.
A sloop carrieda load of hogsheads
of pill boxes up, and brought load
of pills in boxes back. The doctor
probably owns steamboat TODD his
carrying business now. We have no
means of estimating his riches. The
Brandreth House, corner of Broad
way and Canal Street, is owned by
him, and we presume he owns whole
squares of other real estate in that
CITY, asool .taeN 70 isee i9tat
DIR. Ayers, Of Lowell, came very
near running all his relatives after he
started his pills, sarsaparilla and cher
ry pectoral. Itwas tedious time he had
in fighting advertising bills and other
expenses. He spent what little he
had, borrowed all his relatives had,
till finally the medicines began to
make returns, aud from that time,
some twenty years, he. has been ma
king money. He owns paper mill,
where he makes peculiar paper,
which he claims cannot be easily
counterfeited, in which he wraps his
various pre- parations.l People who es-
innate his wealth run him into millions.
At one time he was, if he is not still,
a heavy stakeholder in the New York
Tribune Association. Such men are
apt to leave their imprint, even if they
make their money in the manufacture
of patent medicines.
William B.. Moffat was silk mer-
chant in New York Besides being
a bankrupt his health had become
very much impaile ed from over work
aud trouble of one kind and another.
In his extremity he conceived the
idea of making pill and bitters.
They cured his infrmities and made
a millionaire of him in less than
twenty years. Persons familiar with
New York can tell the number of
magnificent stores he owns on Broad
way and other parts of the city. He
died some years ago, but the pills and
bitters didn't. The heirs carry on
the business as usual.
Perry Davis, the pain-killer man;
Donald Kennedy, proprietor Of the
great medical discovery-who has re-
fused one hundred thousand dollars
for the right: Seth W. Fowle, who
bought Wistar's balsam of wild cherry
from Isaac Butts, of New York, the
largest patent medicine depot in Amer
lea .Hostetter, Helmbold, the Mexican
mustang liniment man, and thous-
aud others in the United States whom
we have not time to mention, can
count their hundreds of thousands,
all made in the patent-medicine trade.
Isaac Butts, of Rochester, sold the
right to manufacture Wistar's Balsam
of Wild Cherry in the Eastern States
to Seth w. Fowle, of Boston, for $685.
600, and put the greater part of the
money in telegraph stock, which stock
so fast that with its div
idends and what he had made in the
Rochester Union, he has retired With
about a million and a half, richer if
not happier man. Rows of stores
and blocks of land owned by him In
Rochester, attest the truth of what we
write. Isaac commenced by selling
Lozenges and Peters Pills
on commission Patent medicines
have made him princely fortune.