Jean's Bakery

..

. .

About

Name

• Jean's Bakery

Manufacturing

• Food Manufacturing

Facts

Founded

• Date unknown
  ^Wooster,Ohio

Dissolved

• Date unknown

Related

Key Persons

Founders

• Clarence Shank
• Fred Shank

Location

Loading map...

{"format":"leaflet","minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"limit":50,"offset":0,"link":"all","sort":["Coordinates"],"order":["asc"],"headers":"hide","mainlabel":"","intro":"","outro":"","searchlabel":"... further results","default":"","import-annotation":false,"width":"auto","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":false,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":true,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","showtitle":false,"hidenamespace":true,"template":"","userparam":"","activeicon":"","pagelabel":false,"ajaxcoordproperty":"","ajaxquery":"","locations":[{"text":"0000 NE Public Square,Wooster,44691,Ohio,United States","title":"Jean's Bakery","link":"","lat":40.807081,"lon":-81.946836,"icon":""}],"imageLayers":[]}

• 0000 NE Public Square, Wooster, 44691, Ohio, United States

Quick Facts

• early 1940s - established - "sugar was being rationed and they had difficulty obtaining enough of it to fill the display case with baked goods. However, U.S. Congressman John McSweeny pulled a few strings and was able to get them enough sugar so that Goodright's dad could do what he loved to do -- bake."
• 1946 - Shank brothers expanded and purchased Lerch's Bakery changing the name to Lerch's Pastry Shop with John Lerch continuing to operate the Lerch's donut stand at the Wayne County Fairgrounds -- a business he started in 1934.
• 1947 - Fred Shank sold his share in the two bakeries to his brother Clarence Shank
• 1947 - Clarence Shank in turn sold the business to Charles J. Moore and his wife Marguerite Moore for the next 19 years it was Moore's Coffee Shop