Alvin Rich & Co

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Alvin Rich & Co
Type Appliance Stores
Industry Retail
Fate Dissolved
Successor(s) D. D. Miller and Co
Founded Wooster, Ohio (1895 (1895))
Founder(s) Alvin Rich
Headquarters Wooster, Ohio, United States
Number of locations 114 E Liberty St, Wooster, Ohio
Owner(s) Landlord: Quimby Estate

Locations

City Directories

Old Numbering 2 E. Liberty St., Wooster, Ohio

New Numbering 114 E. Liberty St., Wooster, Ohio

Beginning in the 1915 Wooster City Directory the address was listed as 114 E. Liberty St.

Comprehensive History

In 1895, Alvin Rich and his brother-in-law, J. P. Blough, rented the Howard Corner on E. Liberty St. and opened a hardware store.[1] A few years later he became sole proprietor of his own hardware store, Alvin Rich & Co., at the location later occupied by the Beulah Bechtel Shop in the 1890 Quinby Building on E. Liberty St.. This retail outlet offered an extensive inventory of 24,000 items- which 8,000 which were on display. It consisted of three floors and basement offering quality merchandise. When he retired he sold his merchandise to Wooster Hardware Co. (old D. D. Miller, Hardware Store) and took down his sign and closed up shop.

Guy Richards was a business partner for many years. Clyde Miller Sr. was also a partner in the hardware business.

Slogans

Historical documents

  • 1942 - Wooster High School annual [2]

Timeline

  • 1895 - Established

Gallery

Business Letterheads

  • Receipt from Alvin Rich & Co. hardware store dated 1916.

  • Statement from Alvin Rich & Co. hardware store dated 1917.


Business Photos

Newspaper articles

Newspaper full-text articles

Brothers-in-law Rich and Blough start a hardware business in Wooster, Ohio in 1895.

Newspaper ads

1895

1900s

  • Page 4 of Wooster Republican,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, December 24th, 1902 (1).jpeg
  • Page 2 of Wooster Republican,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, June 17th, 1903 (1).jpeg
  • Page 3 of Wooster Republican,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, August 19th, 1903.jpeg
  • Page 6 of Wooster Republican,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, September 23rd, 1903.jpeg
  • Page 4 of Wooster Republican,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, October 7th, 1903.jpeg
  • Page 6 of Wooster Republican,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, November 25th, 1903 (1).jpeg
  • Page 4 of Wooster Republican,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, May 25th, 1904.jpeg
  • Page 7 of Wayne County Democrat,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, August 3rd, 1904.jpeg
  • Page 4 of Wooster Republican,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, August 3rd, 1904.jpeg
  • Page 3 of Wayne County Democrat,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, October 5th, 1904 (1).jpeg
  • Page 2 of Wayne County Democrat,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, November 2nd, 1904 (1).jpeg
  • Page 7 of Wooster Republican,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, November 16th, 1904.jpeg
  • Page 4 of Wooster Republican,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, December 14th, 1904.jpeg
  • Page 2 of Wayne County Democrat,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, May 31st, 1905 (1).jpeg
  • Page 2 of Wayne County Democrat,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, June 28th, 1905.jpeg
  • Page 7 of Wooster Republican,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, November 22nd, 1905 (1).jpeg
  • Page 5 of Wooster Republican,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, June 6th, 1906.jpeg
  • Page 8 of Wayne County Democrat,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, March 13th, 1907.jpeg

  • ad, Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio. 1907-07-17, p. 4.</ref>

  • Page 8 of Wooster Republican,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, September 4th, 1907 (1).jpeg
  • Page 8 of Wayne County Democrat,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, July 29th, 1908.jpeg
  • Page 3 of Wayne County Democrat,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, September 30th, 1908.jpeg
  • Page 3 of Wayne County Democrat,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, April 21st, 1909 (2).jpeg
  • Page 6 of Dalton Gazette,published in Dalton, Ohio on Thursday, August 14th, 1941.jpeg

1910s

1920s

  • Washing machine ad, [17].

Newspaper citations with no attached images

References

  1. ↑ Jacksonian. Wooster, Ohio, February 21, 1895.
  2. ↑ Observer 1932" Wooster High School annual. Wooster, Ohio
  3. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio. 1895-03-06, p.3.
  4. ↑ Wayne County Democrat. Wooster, Ohio, 1913-11-04, p. 3.
  5. ↑ Wooster Daily Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-05-24, p. 5
  6. ↑ Wooster Daily News. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-08-10, p. 3.
  7. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-09-19, p. 5.
  8. ↑ Wooster Daily News. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-02-11, p. 7.
  9. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-07-02, p. 2.
  10. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-11-25, p. 2.
  11. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1919-02-14, p. 6.
  12. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1919-05-15, p. 2.
  13. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1919-06-04, p. 6.
  14. ↑ Wooster Daily News. Wooster, Ohio, 1919-07-02, p. 4.
  15. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1919-11-24, p. 2.
  16. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1919-12-22, p. 2.
  17. ↑ Wooster Daily Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1920-01-19, p. 6

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