Lawrence Hesselroth

Apotekare.

"He became an apprentice in the pharmacies of Åmål and Falköping.

In 1864 he departed for America, immediately volunteering for services in the Northern forces during the ongoing Civil War. He was assigned to the U.S. cruiser Kenwood of the Mississippi Squadron, where he not only served as the doctor's steward, but also as the ship's apothecary.

In the spring of 1865 he came to Chicago and later worked in Rockford (Illinois) and St. Paul (Minnesota) as well as Red Wing (Minnesota ).

In Dec. 1871, two months after the disastrous Chicago Fire, he and his partner, Carl Weinberg, opened a Swedish drugstore at 55 East Chicago Avenue, the first of its kind in the U.S. He marked a line of Crown patent medicines, sold not only in Chicago, but sold by mail to every corner of the country."

(Source: Swedish Pharmacists in America., sid. 164).

Lawrence Hesselroth
In 1900 United States Federal Census < MyHeritage >

Name Lawrence Hesselroth
Gender Male
Birth Nov 1843 Sweden
Residence 1900 Chicago city, Cook, Illinois, USA
Age 57
Marital status Married
Marriage 1873
Immigration 1870
Race White
Ethnicity American
Wife Sophia Hesselroth
Occupation Druggist

RELATION TO HEAD NAME AGE
Head Lawrence Hesselroth 57
Wife Sophia Hesselroth 51
Niece Hannah Johnson 22 (born July 1878, Sweden)
Nephew Virger Johnson 14 (born Sept 1886, Illinois)

Niece Hanna Augusta Gearhart
Nephew Birger Lawrence Johnson
Living with their aunt Sophia Mathilda Hesselroth and her husband Lawrence Hesselroth in the 1900 United States Federal Census < MyHeritage >

Source: "Hesselroth " Newspapers.com, The Inter Ocean, December 22, 1877, https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-inter-ocean-hesselroth/14558...

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Source: "Sophie M. Hesselroth" Newspapers.com, Chicago Tribune, December 9, 1940, https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-sophie-m-hesselr...

Will

Lawrence Hesselroth Illinois, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1772-1999 < AncestrySharing >
Name Lawrence Hesselroth
Gender Male
Residence Date Abt 1904
Residence Place Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Will Date 25 Feb 1904
Probate Date 5 Feb 1904
Probate Place Cook, Illinois, USA
Inferred Death Date 1904
Inferred Death Place Illinois, USA
Item Description Record of Wills, Book 44-45, 1903-1904
Others Listed 2

Wife Sophia M. Hesselroth, sole heir.