January 1,1889, the firm of M. & L.A. Canterbury, father and son, opened a drugstore in Redlands in the old Y.M.C.A. building on State street.\u00a0 This was the second drug store established in the city, and was bought out by Dr. Stewart in the summer of 1891 and subsequently removed to Orange street.\u00a0 Dr. Milton Canterbury was a native of Kentucky, in which state he was born January 24, 1821 and died in Redlands May 20, 1892.\u00a0 His widow is still living here.\u00a0 Lawrence A. Canterbury was born in Nelsonville, Mo., March 21, 1857.\u00a0 With his parents in 1865 he crossed the plains in a wagon and located first in Corvallis and afterward in Dallas, Or.\u00a0 In 1879 the family came to California and were residents of Yolo, Sonoma and Colusa counties before coming to San Bernardino county in 1880 and taking up homesteads of 160 acres each in San Timoteo canon.\u00a0 The subject of this sketch received a good common-school education, to which he added by extensive reading and studies at home, conducted in leisure hours.<\/p>\n
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While in Northern California he was engineer in a mill and soon after coming to this county was employed by M. Byrne, general merchant of San Bernardino city, as bookkeeper and confidential clerk.\u00a0 He remained in this position until he opened, in partnership with his father, the drug store above mentioned, the latter conducting the business, the former furnishing the capital necessary and occupying his time with the improvements of his homestead.\u00a0 January 15, 1885, he was married at \u201cCrafton Retreat\u201d to Miss Rosa Belle Robbins, a daughter of Mrs. E.P.R. Craft.\u00a0 A sketch of Mrs. Canterbury\u2019s life is on another page.\u00a0 In 1890 he purchased the property and built the residence where the family then removed and where his widow now resides with her four children, Harry H., Charles M., Ellison R. and Laura A.\u00a0 On September 11, 1890, while in bathing at Long Beach he was seized with cramps and drowned.\u00a0 Several days afterward the body was recovered and now lies buried in Hillside cemetery.\u00a0 He was an earnest prohibitionist, a zealous Christian, a kind husband and father, esteemed by neighbors and acquaintances.<\/p>\n
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