Photograph of Drug Store Interior in Worthington

This photograph shows the interior of a drug store located in Worthington, Ohio. While the photograph from the Worthington Historical Society's collection came without any identification information, it appears the gentleman pictured is Harry Leasure, a druggist. Harry Leasure came to Worthington in 1894, and operated a drug store in the building owned by the Snow family at the corner of High Street and New England Avenue until about 1908. The drugstore was downstairs and the Leasures lived upstairs, paying $10 a month in rent. It was noted that Leasure got rent for half price the month his son Lawrence was born in 1896. He eventually moved his drugstore to a number of other locations including on the east side of High Street near the Village Green, the Jones Building on the west side of High and last a storefront in the middle of the block on the west side of High.