In 1876 the H. W. Boerner family, who moved here from Prussia in 1867, opened one of Iowa City’s first drug stores.
In 1883, Boerner’s Pharmacy moves into a storefront at 113 E. Washington Street, and from that location, services our city for 63 years!
And BTW, in his spare time, Emil Boerner single-handedly starts SUI’s College of Pharmacy, serving as its first dean and only faculty member in 1885.
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