Bio of Odink, M. A. Wabasha Co., MN
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Odink, M. A., druggist, bookseller, stationer and dealer in paints, oils,
etc., Pembroke street, two doors south of Main, premises owned by Joseph
Odink, father of the M. A. Odink. The drug house fronts twenty-five feet
on Pembroke street, and extends fifty-eight feet to the rear. Business was
established in 1878 as Legge & Odink, became Toussaint & Odink, and M. A.
Odink in March, 1882. The prescription department is under charge of B. A.
Slade, a graduate of the Chemical and Pharmaceutical department of the
Illinois State University at Champaign. Business is good, and shows an
increase of fifteen per cent over corresponding period of 1882. Mr. M. A.
Odink is a native of Jackson county, Iowa; came to this county when six
years of age, his parents settling at Read's Landing. Young Odink attended
school at home, and then at high school in Winona, taking a final course
at Bryant & Stratton's Business College in Chicago, from which he
graduated in 1870. He is unmarried, and resides with his parents on Fourth
street.