Established in 1884 Tucson’s second drugstore, Martin Drug Company. See much more at http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/ronstadtfamily/pharmacy/ss56pt1.html.
Dates: July 4, 1832-March 31, 1907
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 358.
See: Judith Williams. Plaza of the Pioneers. Tucson Museum of Art, 1982, page 62: “George Steven Martin” [George Sr.'s son]: "George's father had established the first major drug store in Tucson in 1884. Dr Martin had left his native Ireland in 1851, and enlisted in the Second U.S. Infantry after his arrival in New York. He was sent to California and then to Yuma in 1852, where he served for four years. He was hospital steward and gained his knowledge of drugs during this time; he became known as 'Dr.' Martin. While in Yuma, Dr. Martin married Delfina Redondo, a member of a leading Sonora, Mexico, family. ..."
See also: Bender, George A. A history of Arizona pharmacy. [Glendale, Ariz.] : Arizona Pharmacy Historical Foundation, 1985.[middle initial "P."?] "...In 1884, Martin sold his Yuma store to Pharmacist H. E. Crepin..."
Born in Alabama sometime around 1832, [King] Woolsey came from a large land-holding family who moved to the Arkansas-Louisiana border, attended schools in both states and was being prepared for the priesthood in a Catholic seminary when at around 15 he rebelled and escaped. Supposedly he joined a filibustering expedition to Cuba and in 1850 went in California. In 1855 he joined William Walker on an ill-fated expedition to Nicaragua and afterwards he returned to California where he remained for some years. Hearing about rich mineral discoveries along the Colorado River in 1860, he traveled by horseback from Calaveras County by way of San Francisco in the company of a Mr. Benedict and a Colonel Jackson. Armed but only possessing five dollars between them they arrived at Fort Yuma where Woolsey obtained employment as a mule driver while his companions moved on to Yavapai County. Woolsey soon formed a partnership with George Martin, a druggist, and bought the Agua Caliente Ranch, a promising spot on the north side of the Gila River eighty miles above Yuma for $1800 in gold. It was a well-watered spot, boasted luxurious grasses fed by springs and was a favorite stopping place for freighters and travels on the road between Tucson and Yuma. Here, Woolsey raised cattle and horses. When word reached Woolsey that Colonel Albert Sydney Johnson was traveling overland with a party bound for secessia [secession?], Woolsey made plans to join him at Maricopa wells. The scheme was ironically thwarted by illness which kept him from meeting Johnson....
Source[?]: http://files.usgwarchives.net/az/statewide/bios/Woolsey.txt
Martin opened the first Martin Drug Co. pharmacy in January 1884 on Broadway Boulevard (in Tucson). The second Martin Drug Co. was located on the corner of Congress and Fifth (in Tucson). [unverified]
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See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: 4:292.