Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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L. D. SALE 
AND 
J. W. A. OFF 
 
are the proprietors of the flourishing retail drug business at No. 268 South 
Spring street, near Fourth, and are successors to Howard M. Sale, who opened the 
store in January, 1887, and sold out to the present owners in August of that 
year. This enterprising young firm keeps in stock a complete line of the purest 
pharmaceutical goods, perfumeries, toilet articles and proprietary medicines. In 
their extensive prescription trade�one of the largest in the city�they use such 
standard preparations as Edwin Squibb's drugs and Merck's chemicals, both 
manufacturers of world-wide reputation. Until recently Sale & Off was the only 
firm in Southern California that handled surgical instruments, in which they 
have done and are still doing a fine business. Both gentlemen are expert 
pharmacists who have had a number of years experience in compounding 
prescriptions and are recognized by leading physicians as among the best, 
although they are probably the youngest drug firm in the United States. Mr. Sale 
learned the business with his father, now retired, in Pueblo, Colorado, 
beginning seven years ago. He was born near Quincy, Illinois, in 1868. Mr. Off 
is a native of Iowa, born in 1868. He took one course at the California College 
of Pharmacy in San Francisco, and was connected for a number of years with a 
drug house in that city. Coining to Los Angeles in 1886, he was employed one 
year and a half in the drug store of Theodore Wollweber, one of the oldest 
druggists in California, now retired. Mr. Off has had nearly ten years' 
experience in the drug business.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 643
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler