Getchell's Drug Store

Next to the granite block is the Getchell Drug Store. Merserve M Getchell and his brother Asher came to Silver City in 1889 as young men to work with their uncle STN Smith, a prominent businessman and original owner of this building. Merserve married Silver City native Idaho Maud Hays in 1891. Sadly, the couple lost their only infant son at eight days old in 1893. Maud died four years later of peritonitis at the age of 27. He remarried Mary Elizabeth Hutchinson in 1899 in Silver and they had two daughters, Francis and Eleanor. The family relocated to Seattle where Merserve’s occupation was listed as a builder in the 1910 Census. Getchell’s Drug Store sold confections, stationery, cigars, medicine, and more, and Merserve left much of the store’s merchandise here when he sold it and moved to Seattle. Getchell brother Asher went on to be a pharmacist in Twin Falls before joining his brother and their parents in Seattle.