Elks Lodge 48-56 Broadway

This building is at the southeast corner of Broadway and Bound Avenue, across from the Broadway House hotel. The left entrance with the sign is for Cyrus Brown’s Drug Store. The sign still has the number 36 on it from before the great fire. The Swartz Grocery building is to the left. The F. W. Lindner Farm Supply building is to the right, on Bound Avenue.

From Bell’s History of Northumberland County 1891: CYRUS BROWN, druggist, was born in White Deer valley, Union county, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1824, eldest son of Samuel T. and Nancy (Woods) Brown. He was educated at the schools of Milton, and the Lewisburg Academy, after which he entered a drug store in Philadelphia, where he remained until he acquired a thorough knowledge of the business. In 1854 he returned to Milton, and established his present drug house, which is now the largest in the county. He was burned out in May, 1880, with a loss of fifty thousand dollars, outside of his insurance, but rebuilt the same year, and in 1882 erected his present store. Mr. Brown handles white lead in large quantities, and is the inventor and manufacturer of the Red Horse powder. He is a believer in printer’s ink, and is probably the most extensive advertiser in the county. In 1859 he married Louisa B., daughter of David Krauser, who died leaving one daughter, Hettie L. He was again married, January 1, 1876, to Mrs. Rebecca H. Rhodes, widow of Doctor Rhodes, of Milton. Politically Mr. Brown is a Democrat; he has served as city councilman, and is a member of the Presbyterian church.