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Lunsford Richardson : ウィキペディア英語版 | Lunsford Richardson Lunsford Richardson, 1854–1919, was a U.S. pharmacist from Selma, North Carolina, and the founder of Vick Chemical Company (which became Richardson Vicks Inc.). He died August 20, 1919. ==Early life==
Lunsford was born in 1854 on a farm near Selma, North Carolina. He attended Davidson College, where he graduated with highest honors in Latin in 1875. He taught at The Little River Academy before he became a pharmacist. He married Mary Lynn Smith, from Greensboro, North Carolina in about 1884. Their son, H. Smith Richardson, 1885–1972, was born on July 19. His second son was Lunsford Richardson 1891-1953. He also had 3 daughters. Lunsford bought a drugstore in Selma where he concocted and sold a menthol-laced ointment for "croupy" babies that he labeled "Vick's" in honor of Dr. Joshua W. Vick, his brother-in-law who helped him get established in business. Later he sold the store in Selma and bought one in Greensboro. This was the Porter and Tate Drugstore - Dr. Porter was the uncle of William Sydney Porter, the author known as O. Henry.
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