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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. Manning Pritchard and Philip Lloyd buy the Patterson Brothers drugstore from its receivers The Patterson Brothers drugstore went into receivership early in 1930, and on February 22 Manning Pritchard and Philip Lloyd (James Manning Pritchard and Thomas Phillip Lloyd) bought its stock and equipment from the receivers, F. O. Bowman and C. W. Hall, to run as Pritchard-Lloyd, Inc. Lloyd had long worked in the Patterson store; Pritchard, youngest child of the late W. N. Pritchard, came from drugstores in Durham, Greensboro and Raleigh. Bryant names Wallace Durham Patterson as the seller. The maps then list it as the Pritchard and Lloyd Rexall store. People: Thomas Phillip Lloyd, Frederick O. Bowman, James Manning Pritchard Place: Patterson Brothers drugstore, later Pritchard's, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Wallace Durham Patterson, C. W. Hall, Philip Lloyd, Manning Pritchard, W. N. PritchardSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 245 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 28, 1930, p. 1
  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: Thomas Phillip Lloyd, James Manning Pritchard Place: Pritchard's Drugstore, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Carolina PharmacySearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 257 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 4, 1936, p. 5
  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 Pritchard Place: Pritchard's drugstore, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Rachel Crook · Also mentions: Fraternity RowSearch 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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