Family empire, or drug wars?

McClure Wholesale Druggists
McClure Wholesale Druggists
McClure drugs
McClure drugs
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In the 1858 Albany City Directory, McClures of one form or another are all over the Albany drug trade. And by drugs, we also mean paints, oils, varnishes, alcohol, camphene, “burning fluid,” etc. Whether these likely adjacent businesses on State Street were friendly extensions of a family business or warring offshoots of a family feud, there’s no way to know.

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