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| John E. Healy was a clerk in New Haven Conn in 1867. He opened a brokerage house in Boston around 1878, and in 1881 got the idea of using Indian names for his products and took in a partner (Charles Bigelow) around 1882. They hired Indians from any tribe and went on the road with a medicine show. Their headquarters was in New Haven with a Depot in Boston. One of their most popular preparations together was "Healy & Bigelow's Indian Sagwa." Apparently Healy had a falling out with Bigelow and sold out his interests to him and James Averill in 1894. The company was called the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. of Clintonville Conn. by the turn of the century. The majority of the above information was taken from the Wilsons' book. I found John E Healy & Charles Bigelow listed at 176 W. Van Buren in Chicago from 1887 to 1890. John O'Dell said that the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company marketed eleven other products. The following was taken from the label of a Kickapoo Sage Hair Tonic bottle (directions omitted). KICKAPOO SAGE HAIR TONICPicture courtesy of Richard Kinney. This bottle originally came with a colored glass stopper.
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