Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....McVicker, Archibald E. 1867 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Archibald E. McVicker, one of the well-known druggists of Wichita, Kan., is a
native of the Dominion of Canada, having been born in Carleton county, Province
of Ontario, on September 15, 1867. His parents were Archibald E. and Caroline
(Sullivan) McVicker, natives of Carleton county, Ontario, who came to Kansas May
12, 1870, locating in Kechi township, Sedgwick county, where they resided for a
period of seventeen years. Mr. McVicker, Sr., died July 4, 1877, at the age of
forty-three. His widow died March 9, 1909, at Cripple Creek, Colo., at the age
of seventy-three. Archibald E. McVicker was the fifth child of a family of nine,
four of whom are living, the others being Robert A., in Wichita, and Allen M.
and John R. McVicker, at Cripple Creek, Colo. Mr. McVicker was educated in the
public schools of Sedgwick county, studied while engaged in drug store and
received his diploma from State Board, began in the drug business in Wichita
June 26, 1884, with the firm of Swentzell & Douglas. He remained with this firm
for three years, leaving them to enter the employment of George Van Werden, with
whom he remained for the next nine years. In 1898 he embarked in business for
himself with a stock of goods at No. 314 North Main street, continuing at this
location until 1904, when he removed to No. 500 East Douglas avenue with a
greatly enlarged stock, and has since continued as one of the most successful
druggists of the city of Wichita. Fraternally Mr. McVicker is affiliated with
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He was married on December 25, 1895, to
Miss Estella Cobb, daughter of Dr. Joseph Cobb, of Wichita. From this union
there has been issue two children, Russell A., born June 9, 1897, and Kenneth,
born March 16, 1903.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from 

History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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