Day, David, 1825-1896

David Day was born September 19, 1825 in Burke's Garden, Virginia, where he spent his childhood. In 1846 he moved to Wisconsin where he spent three years working in the mines and spending his evenings in the study of medicine. He attended lectures at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania during the winter months and graduated in 1849.

Day moved to St. Paul in the Spring of 1849, where he believed the climate would benefit his ailing health. He practiced medicine there for five years before deciding, for health reasons, to go into the drug business, which he maintained on the corner of Third and Cedar streets in St. Paul until 1866. For several years he ran a firm in partnership with J. B. Jenks under the name of Day & Jenks.

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