“Mr. Halsey was the founder of the West End Drug Store.... The building at 6 East State street, which continually for 51 years has been occupied for a drug store, was built around 1822 by Horace Mack, and occupied by him until 1832 as a dry goods store. It was then taken possession of by B.S. Halsey and fitted up as a drug store.”

D. Morris Kurtz, Ithaca and Its Resources, Ithaca, NY: Journal Association Book and Job Print, 1883, 80