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About
- Name
- Danford Company, The
- Retail
- Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores
- Other Services
- Personal and Laundry Services
- Services
- Furniture Store, Undertaker
Facts
- Founded
- March 8,1905
Wooster,Ohio
- Dissolved
- 1940
Related
- Predecessors
- Successors
Key Persons
- Founders
Location
- 144 W. Liberty St., Wooster, Ohio
1912–1919 - 237 E. Liberty St., Wooster, Ohio
1925–1939 - 22 W. Liberty St., Wooster, Ohio see Quick Facts 1908
1907
Danford, McIntire and Nixon Funeral Home
Historical documents
- Wooster Progress (1914)
- 1914 - Shoe Store
"This Company is engaged in the Furniture and Undertaking business. The Furniture end embraces Rugs, Furniture, Sewing Machines, and Pictures. The furniture includes everything for the Parlor, Library, Bedroom, Dining Room and Kitchen. The Undertaking is run on conservative lines and the best of service rendered. The equipment is of the best. In addition of prompt Ambulance services is furnished day or night in any case of sickness or accident. There is not a better appointed furniture store in Ohio and the Funeral Directing is above reproach.
Mr. J. H. B. Danford, who is at the head of the company has over twenty years of honest experience and business endeavor. He is a graduate of three schools of Embalming of nation-wide reputation, and combines the best points of each, making him an export in both Funeral Directing and Embalming. In addition he is the buyer for the company and knows the best lines, guaranteeing to the customers goods of quality. Most of the lines carried are nationally advertised, Hoosier Kitchen Cabinets, Globe-Wernicke, and Macey sectional cases, The Kindel and the Owen Davenport Beds, the Ostermoor and Seely Mattresses, the White and New Home Sewing Machines.
Mr. A. C. McIntire, the other member, has been here over ten years and is also a licensed Embalmer and Funeral Director. This insures satisfaction in the knowledge of long service. If you are in Wooster drop into the store and see what a complete stock is carried, or to wait for your friends or the Southerwestern car. [1]
Slogans
- To Serve Humanity Better
- 1928 - You can do "BETTER: at Danford's
Quick Facts
- 1905 - March 8, buys half interest of H. B. Christine in the Christine Bros. furniture and undertaking business in Wooster, Ohio and it becomes Danford & Christine.
- 1905 - December, buys the other half interest in the furniture and undertaking business to become sole proprietor of the business.
- 1906 - Ad show J. H. B. Danford Co. is the Successor to Christine and Danford
- 1908-1909 Wooster Directory, J.H.B. Danford - 22 W. Liberty (Florence) Furniture undertaker, sewing machines, picture & frames; rugs and shades, p. 37; Danford's Furniture Store; Arthur C. (Daisy) McIntire), Clerk, p. 58.
- 1908 - Moore's Directory shows J.H.B. Danford Funeral Director and Embalmer operating at 22 W. Liberty St. in Wooster, Ohio.
- 1909-1910 - Arthur (Daisy) McIntire; John H. B. Danford (Florence) Furniture Store
- 1912 - Wooster City Directory shows The Danford Co. operating at 144 W. Liberty St. in Wooster, Ohio.
- 1912 - June 17, Danford Furniture Co. purchased the stock of furniture and undertaking supplies from Mrs. Landis (widow). Arthur Clark McIntire was place temporily in charge of the Landis store. [2]
- 1912-1913 - The Danford Co., Furniture, A. C. McIntire (Daisy), p. 83; The Danford Co. Furniture, carpets, and undertaking - 144 W. Liberty St. J. H. B. Danford (Florence B.), p. 39.
- 1915 - Wooster City Directory shows The Danford Co. operating at 144 W. Liberty St. in Wooster, Ohio in partnership with A. C. McIntire.
- 1915 - A. Clark McIntire (Daisy M.) The Danford Co., p. 63; The Danford Co., furniture & undertaking J. H. B. Danford & A. C. Intire, 144 W. Liberty St., p. 32.
- 1919 - Wooster City Directory shows The Danford Co. operating at 144 W. Liberty St. in Wooster, Ohio in partnership with A. C. McIntire and E. S. Nixon.
- 1919 - Arthur C. McIntire (Daisy M.) with Danford Co., p. 63; The Danford Co., furniture & undertaking J. H. B. Danford & A. C. McIntire, 144 W. Liberty St., p. 32.
- 1923 - Arthur C. McIntire (Daisy M) Danford Co., p. 150; Earl S. Nixon (Anna D.) Danford Co., p. 160; Danford Co., furniture & funeral directors (J. H. B. Danford, A. C. McIntire, E. S. Nixon, 144 W. Liberty St., 97; Ambulance, p. 98
- 1924 - Danford sells his interest in the business to A.C. McIntire and E.S. Nixon and they form the McIntire & Nixon Funeral Directors and Furniture store at 144 W. Liberty St. in Wooster, Ohio.
- 1925 - J.H.B. Danford re-embarked in business as The Danford Co. operating at 237 E. Liberty St. and the Danford Funeral Home operating at 238 S. Buckeye St. in Wooster, Ohio.
- 1925 - The Danford Co,, furniture & funeral directors, p. 18, 92, J. H. B. Danford (Florence B.) Danford Co., President, 238 S. Buckeye St.
- 1934-1935 - The Danford Co., Furniture, 237 E. Liberty St., p. 80; Danford Funeral Home, 439 N. Market St., p. 80. John H. B. Danford (Florence B.) Danford Co.
- 1937 - The Danford Co., Furniture, 237 E. Liberty St. (J. H. B. Danford), p. 82; Danford Funeral Home, 238 S. Buckeye St., p.82; John H. B. Danford (Florence B.) Danford Co., p. 83.
- 1939 -0 The Danford Co., furniture (J. H. B. Danford), p. 85 237 E. Liberty St.; Danford Funeral Home 238 S. Buckeye St., p. 86; John H. B. Danford (Florence B.) Danford Co.
- 1939/1940 - disposes of his interests in running a business on E. Liberty St. to The Wooster Appliance Company.
- 1940 - Danford Funeral Home - J. H. B. Danford) 238 S. Buckeye St., p. 127.J.H.B. Danford (Florence) Danford Funeral Home
- 1942 - March 19, John Howard Beecher Danford dies.
- 1943 - Florence B. Danford, widow, John H. B., p. 105.
- September 16, 1908: "Visitor Badly Hurt: Henry Kafer of Millersburg Breaks Ankle", Wooster Republican, p. 6.