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J. J. Schott opens Galveston pharmacy
On this day in 1867, Justus Julius Schott opened a drugstore in
Galveston. Schott, born in Germany in 1846, came to Galveston with his
family in 1851 and was orphaned two years later when both his parents
died of yellow fever. He was just twenty-one when he opened the J. J.
Schott Drug Company, which became the main conduit of medical supplies
from Europe to other drugstores and physicians in Galveston and
throughout Texas. In 1869 Schott began to experiment with chicle, and
for several years he imported and sold chewing gum wholesale to
druggists throughout the country, until the Adams Chewing Gum Company
sued him for infringement of patent. Schott won the case, but did not
pursue his rights further. In 1885 he ventured into another enterprise
with Moxie, a carbonated drink popular in the North, which he
distributed throughout the state. Its popularity made Schott one of
Galveston's major manufacturers. He died in 1928.
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