Godbold, Fabius C.

Submitted by Mike Miller

One of the leading prescription druggists of New Orleans is Fabius C. Godbold, 1361 Magazine street., who was born in Franklin county, Miss., July 7, 1842, a son of G. P. and Celah (Pickett) Godbold, the former a native of Mississippi, the latter a native of Louisiana. Mr. Godbold was educated it that old reliable institution, Centenary college, Jackson, Miss., and was in attendance there at the beginning of the war. He entered the First Louisiana cavalry and served under command of Gen. Braxton Bragg in the Army of Tennessee during the entire period of the struggle. An incident of his service was his capture by the federals at the fall of Fort Pillow. After the war he took up his residence in New Orleans, and until 1868 was employed as a clerk in a dry goods establishment. During that year he entered the drug store of W. C. Harrison, who was then located on the site of Mr. Godbold's present store, with whom he remained until January, 1877, in the meantime taking a course in pharmacy in the medical department of Tulane university, in which science he graduated in 1875. Two years later he opened an independent drug house at the corner of Carondelet and Thania streets, whence he removed in July, 1883, to his present location at the corner of Magazine and Thania streets. Perhaps this store is best known for the accuracy with which its prescriptions were compounded, but the additional fact that one of the largest and most complete general drug stocks in the city is carried is patent to every one who enters its doors.

The standing of Mr. Godbold in his profession is indicated by the fact that he is secretary of the Louisiana State Pharmaceutical association. He was married in October, 1881, to Miss Elizabeth Amy, daughter of L. C. Amy, of New Orleans, who has borne him two children, named Louis Arny and Carrie Amy Godbold.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), pp. 447-448. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.