Correspondence of Lucien Royce and members of his family. Royce was born in Bristol, Connecticut. He entered the drug business in Hartford in 1855. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in Company A, 25th Connecticut Regiment Volunteers, and served with the regiment in Louisiana. Royce was promoted to hospital steward and was honorably discharged in 1863. Next he was appointed surgeon's steward in the US Navy (1863) and ordered in medical charge of the USS Acacia, and served on board that ship in the South Atlantic squadron at the siege of Charleston till the close of the war. After the war Royce studied at the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York, graduating in 1866. He then began working in the wholesale drug business with McKesson & Robbins. Royce married Emma Gratia Hollister in 1872. The couple had three children, Helen Elizabeth (b. 1873), Lucy Atwater (b. 1876), and Robert Hollister (b. 1880).
