Photograph of the Harry Leasure Drug Store at the Corner of High St. and New England Ave.

This photographic postcard depicts the Harry Leasure Drugstore with three men, a child, and a bicycle. This structure is located on the southwest corner of High Street and New England Avenue where Fritzy Jacobs is now located. Harry Leasure came to Worthington in 1894 and operated a drug store at this location until about 1908. The drugstore was downstairs and the Leasure family lived upstairs, paying $10 a month in rent. It was noted that Leasure got rent for half price the month his son Lawrence was born in 1896. He eventually moved his drugstore to a number of other locations including on the east side of High Street near the Village Green, the Jones Building on the west side of High and last a storefront in the middle of the block on the west side of High. Note that in this image High Street is a dirt road still, and the right side of the image shows a buggy, barn, and lamp post.

An article in the May 18, 1939 Worthington News appears to reference this photograph, discovered in Mr. Leasure's prescription book, stating "another picture shows the old Leasure Drug Store at the corner of High and New England Avenue with Mr. Leasure, George Van Loon and Charles Michael in front of the building." George Van Loon was the proprietor of the Hotel Central (now known as the Worthington Inn) across the street. Charles Michael worked in the sawmill and lumber business and also served as Village Marshal for a time.

The building was owned by the Snow family from the time it was built 1817 until 1916. George Snow was a physician who practiced in Worthington in the mid 1800s, and his son Thomas Snow, a druggist, occupied this site in the 1860s and 70s.
Dr. Longenecker, a dentist, bought the property in 1916 and immediately remodeled its current configuration.