HELP IDENTIFYING LOCATION JAS A WALKUP PHARMACIST

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webe992

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This bottle was in a large collection I bought but I can’t figure out where Jas A WALKUP was based out of. I’m trying to determine what town he was a pharmacist in.
 

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CanadianBottles

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Probably somewhere in Texas. He died in 1971 in San Antonio https://archive.org/stream/sewaneenews197137univ/sewaneenews197137univ_djvu.txt

"James A. Walkup, M'OO, a graduate
in pharmacy, died February 4 in
San Antonio, Texas, at the age of
ninety-four. The San Antonio
Express says that when he retired
at age eighty-nine he was the oldest
practicing pharmacist in the United
States, and received a congratulatory
letter from President Johnson.
Mr. Walkup told a reporter that
the only time he missed from work
in seventy years was for fishing and
vacations. "

He's mentioned as working for the Meadowbrook Drug Company in Fort Worth in an alumni newsletter from 1951. I haven't been able to find anything from him before that though, so not sure where he would have been when this bottle was used.
 

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Bottle is indeed from Fort Worth, where his pharmacy was located for many years.
 

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