Harding & Jones Hardware

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About

Name

• Harding & Jones Hardware

Retail

• Building Material / Garden Equipment and Supplies

Services

• Hardware Store

Facts

Founded

• 1876
  ^Wooster,Ohio

• Date unknown

Related

Successors

• Harding Hardware

Key Persons

Founders

• W. H. Jones
• William A. Harding

Location

• 1989 S. Buckeye St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio, United States

In 1874, James C. Jacobs sold his well-established hardware store business and the Iron Block Building to Col. Samuel Keefer, of New York city, New York. In 1876, Keefer transferred the hardware store business to William A. Harding and Willard H. Jones, also of New York and they moved to Wooster, Ohio to operate the business.

Company name

• currently Tignor Hometown Hardware
• Retzler True Value Hardware
• Retzler Hardware
  • previously Wayne Hardware & Supply Company, 1945-1958
  • previously Wayne Hardware, 1938-1945
  • previously Welsh Hardware Inc.
  • previously Harding Hardware
  • previously Harding & Jones Hardware, 1876-

Business Letterheads

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Newspaper articles

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  Harding & Jones' Hardware Store. An Extensive Business Industry. Wayne County Democrat, Supplement, DEC. 18, 1878 p.2

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  Neighborhood News. Wooster. Dalton Gazette, 1879-MAR-12 p.1

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