Lapeyre Brothers
History of the State of Montana, by Joaquim Miller, 1894 

Lapeyre Brothers, the pioneer and leading druggists of 
Great Falls, Montana, established their business here in 
1886. They began in a small way, gave close attention to 
their business, met with marked success and in 1890 they 
built their brick block on the corner of Centre and Third 
Avenues, one of the best business corners in the city. This 
buildingis 25 x 100 feet: two of its floor are occupied by 
their stock of drugs and its upper rooms are utilized for 
offices.They keep an elegrant stock of all kinds of goods 
in their line. By their straightforward business methods 
and theircourteous treatment of customers, they have won 
their way to the front and are justly deserving of the 
position theyoccupy as the leading duggists of the city. 
These gentlemen, A.R. and B.E. Lapeyre, are of French 
ancestry. Their parents, Alexander and Emilie Viguer 
Lapeyre,were born in France. They emigrated to St. 
Louis, Missouri in 1821 and there the father was 
engaged in business up to the time of his death, 
which occurred in the sixtieth year of his age. 
The mother died at the age of forty-eight. The 
brothers, A.R. and B.E. were born in St. Louis 
in the years 1857 and 1861 respectively. They 
grew up in their native city, received their 
education there and there learned the drug 
business. In 1874 they came to Montana and 
located at Helena, where for a number of years 
they were in the employ of Henry M. Parchen, 
druggist, and in 1886, as above stated, took 
up their abode in Great Falls. Previous to 
his coming here B.E. was for a time at Butte 
City with the Parchen firm and later with 
M.A. Flanagan at Fort Benton. Both are 
members of theMasonic fraternity and in their 
political views are Republicans.

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