David Louis Freedlander
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| David Louis Freedlander | |
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| Native name | Friedlander |
| Born |
<Unable able to determine> January 5, 1857 Freidland in East Prussia |
Resting place | Mayfield Cemetery. Cleveland, Ohio |
| Residence | Friedland, East Prussia, Buffalo, New York, Wooster, Ohio |
| Nationality | East Prussia, German and Yiddish speaking immigrant in 1876 to United States (Age 19) sail to America on the S. S. Suevia Hambug-Ameria Line |
| Citizenship | arrived at Castle Garden know then as Castle Clinton |
| Occupation | Laborer, Traveling Peddler and Retail |
| Known for | Founders of Buffalo One Price Clothing House and brought fixed pricing to Wayne County, Ohio. David was the first store in Wooster, Ohio to discard the age-old practice of bartering, or trading one item of service for another. |
| Home town | Settled in Wooster, Ohio in 1884 |
| Religion | Jewish took the Jewish custom of taking his father's first name as his own last name |
| Spouse(s) | Anna |
During the 1880s, the sale person would almost always negotiate the price, but David Louis Freedlander didn't like this method of selling. Mr. Freedlander came up with charging all customers "one price".
Entrepreneur life
Buffalo One Price Clothing House
- First store, 1886 - First ad appeared in the Wayne County Democrat newspaper, February 24, 1886
- 20 x 30 feet, street level, building is 3 stories high
- Germania Hall Block located on S. Market St., Wooster, Ohio where City Square Steakhouse is today.
- 1st floor - David rented part of the first floor, shared with a saloon keeper
- 2nd floor - Straub
- 3rd floor - Popular dance hall
- Second store, March 1888 - The Quinby Building SE corner of public square.
Buffalo Clothing House, The
- Third store, 1891
- Relocated to corner of W. Liberty and Walnut Streets.
- Fourth store, 1892 moved across the street
D. L. Freedlander One Price Clothier
- last name change, 1896
- S. Market St., Wooster, Ohio location
Reference
A large portion of this page, with permission, is taken from the book, "Gone, But Not Forgottem: a Freedlander Legacy" by Ann Freedlander Hunt. Two Harbors Press, 2012.