In 1872, the Pioneer Drug Store was opened by Louis Rudberg and Charles A. Morris. In 1875 Rudberg sold his half of the store to Morris and, in 1880, Morris sold out to Dr. C. A. McCollom and George B. Breed. They sold the store to the Rudberg Brothers in 1883. On his way to Sweden for a vacation in 1885, Jonas J. Rudberg died in Philadelphia on February 8, age 42, and the business was then sold to Ray F. Case, who was the store's druggist. He operated it until he sold out to McCoy & Co. in 1898, who had started the second store of this kind in 1894. Then it became the W. J. Busch Drug Store. Edwin F. Proctor took up a homestead on section 4, in the month of May 1869. He had been in the Civil War, and, under General William Tecumseh Sherman, he was present with the regiment that fought around and burned Atlanta, and in the subsequent March to the Sea. Edwin participated in fourteen battles in all and was only slightly wounded in two of them, at Chancellorsville and at Antietam.