Louis K. Liggett
{{Short description|American drug store magnate}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Louis Kroh Liggett
| image = Louis Kroh Liggett 1920.jpg
| caption = Liggett in 1920
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1875|04|04}}
| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan
| death_date = {{death date and age|1946|6|5|1875|4|4}}
| death_place = Brookline, Massachusetts
| resting_place = Newton Cemetery
Newton, Massachusetts
| spouse = {{marriage|Musa Bence|1895|1931}}
| signature = Signature of Louis Kroh Liggett.png
| party = Republican
}}
Louis Kroh Liggett (April 4, 1875 – June 5, 1946) was an American drug store magnate who founded L.K. Liggett Drug Company and then Rexall. He was later chairman of United Drug Company. He was a member of the Republican National Committee for Massachusetts.
Biography
He was born in Detroit, Michigan, on April 4, 1875. His parents were John Templeton Liggett and Julia A. Kroh.Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2, (1943-1950), Chicago:A. N. Marquis Company, 1963, p. 323His middle name is often erroneously given as Kohl''.
In 1936 he toured America and parts of Canada with the Rexall Train to promote Rexall stores and products. In 1937 Louis Liggett moved to 170 Ivy Street, in Brookline, Massachusetts.
He died on June 5, 1946, in Brookline, Massachusetts.{{cite news |title=L. K. Liggett Dies. Began Drug Chain. Ex-Head of United-Rexall Co. Once Controlled 7,000 Outlet Stores Throughout U.S. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/06/07/archives/lk-liggett-dies-began-drug-chain-exhead-of-unitedrexall-co-once.html |quote=Louis Kroh Liggett, founder and honorary chairman of the board of the United-Rexall Drug Company and the Liggett chain of drug stores, and a former Republican National Committeeman for Massachusetts, died on Wednesday in Washington, according to word received here yesterday. His age was 71. |newspaper=New York Times |date=June 7, 1946 |access-date=2012-09-29 }} He was entombed in the Liggett Mausoleum in Newton Cemetery in Newton.
=Estate in Chestnut Hill Newton=
From 1916 to 1937, Louis Liggett owned and occupied a {{convert|9|acre|m2|adj=on}} estate at 185 Hammond Street in the village of Chestnut Hill in Newton, Massachusetts. The main house, built in 1895, was modeled on Gwydr Hall in Wales. Musa Liggett died in 1931. The estate was donated in 1937 to Cardinal William Henry O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, who in 1941 donated it to Boston College, which used it to create its Upper Campus. The main house is now known as [http://www.bc.edu/offices/studentprograms/programs/och/och_history.html O'Connell House] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227052456/http://www.bc.edu/offices/studentprograms/programs/och/och_history.html |date=December 27, 2017 }} and is the center of the Upper Campus.{{cite web |url=http://www.bc.edu/offices/historian/resources/guide/oconnell/ |title=Campus Guide - Boston College |website=www.bc.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014212151/http://bc.edu/offices/historian/resources/guide/oconnell/ |archive-date=2007-10-14}} On April 22–23, 1938, the furniture and other property of the late Musa Bence Liggett were sold at auction by Louis K. Liggett's order at American Art Association-Anderson Galleries in New York City.
Personal life
On June 26, 1895, Liggett married Musa Bence. She was born in Michigan on March 19, 1873, to Lavinia and George W. Bence. Liggett and Bence had three children. Musa died on September 7, 1931, in Plymouth, Massachusetts.{{cite news |title=Mrs. Louis K. Liggett – Wife of United Drug Company President Dies at 58 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/09/08/archives/obituary-10-no-title.html| quote=Mrs. Musa Bence Liggett, wife of Louis K. Liggett, head of the United Drug Company... |newspaper=New York Times |date=September 8, 1931 |page=26 |access-date=May 10, 2020}}{{cite news |title=Wife of United President Dies at 58 |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/2021740112.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Sep+08%2C+1931&author=&pub=Daily+Boston+Globe+(1928-1960)&desc=MRS+LOUIS+K.+LIGGETT+DEAD+AT+PLYMOUTH&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131173023/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/2021740112.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Sep+08,+1931&author=&pub=Daily+Boston+Globe+(1928-1960)&desc=MRS+LOUIS+K.+LIGGETT+DEAD+AT+PLYMOUTH&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 31, 2013 |quote=Mrs. Musa Bence Liggett, wife of Louis K. Liggett, head of the United Drug Company... |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=September 8, 1931 |access-date=2012-09-30 }}
References
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Resources
- The Rexall Story: A History of Genius and Neglect by Mickey C. Smith {{ISBN|0-7890-2472-1}}
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Category:People from Brookline, Massachusetts
Category:American businesspeople in retailing