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Picture #10 below (Possibly Drury & Co. General Store in Bloomsdale, MO, owned by Julian "Jules" Clement Drury and his brother Charles?)
From page 597, History of Southeastern Missouri (1888): "Charles F. and Jules C. drury, of the general merchandise firm of Drury & Co. of Bloomsdale, MO, were born in Ste. Genevieve County, in 1857 and 1850, respectively. They are sons of Clem and Mary Drury, who were born respectively in St. Francois and Ste. Genevieve counties. The former's birth occurred in 1829 and the latter's in 1830. They were parents of eleven children. Charles Drury was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. In 1885 he and a cousin, Dumas F. Drury, became partners in a genral merchandise establishment in Bloomsdale, but at a later period Jules Drury purchased the cousin's interest in the store, and the firm is now known as Drury & Co. They have erected a fine new business house and are doing a large and lucrative trade. Their anuual sales amount to about $12,000. Charles Drury is unmarried. Jules was married in 1870 to Jane Hipes, and six children have blessed their union: Amos, Mary, Landra, Moses, Bertha, and Peter. The Drury brothers have the exclusive control of the mercantile business at Bloomsdale and are men of strict integrity and of good business capacity." |
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