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James Manning Pritchard

James Manning Pritchard was a pharmacist and the youngest child of Captain W. N. Pritchard of Chapel Hill. After training at the university's pharmacy school he worked at drugstores in Durham, Greensboro and Raleigh, and in 1930 he and Philip Lloyd bought the bankrupt Patterson Brothers drugstore on East Franklin Street. In 1936 he bought out Lloyd and ran it alone as Pritchard's Drugstore. He died in November 1944, and the store closed soon after.

Source: The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 28, 1930

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  1. James M. Pritchard and Thomas P. Lloyd buy the bankrupt Patterson Brothers drugstore The Patterson Brothers drugstore failed in 1930, and Pritchard and Lloyd bought it from Wallace Durham Patterson. The maps then list it as the Pritchard and Lloyd Rexall store. People: James Manning Pritchard, Thomas Phillip LloydSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 245
  2. James M. Pritchard buys out Thomas Lloyd and becomes sole owner of the drugstore Pritchard took sole charge of the former Patterson Brothers store, now Pritchard's Drugstore. Lloyd opened his own Carolina Pharmacy in 1940. People: James Manning Pritchard, Thomas Phillip LloydSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 257
  3. Pritchard's drugstore on East Franklin Street closes after its owner dies James Manning Pritchard died and his drugstore shut. Rachel Crook sold pecans in the empty store for a short while before the North Carolina Cafeteria, formerly on Fraternity Row, bought the building and moved in. People: James Manning PritchardSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 281

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