Christine Bros.

Christine Bros.

Type	Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores; Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores; Funeral Homes
Industry	Retail; Other Services
Fate	Dissolved
Founded	Wooster, Ohio estimated (1899 (1899))
Headquarters	Wooster, Ohio, United States
Number of locations	144 W Liberty St, Wooster, Ohio

Locations

• 22 W. Liberty St., Wooster, Ohio 44691
• 144 W. Liberty St., Wooster, Ohio 44691

City Directories

• 1902 May 19, Christine Bros., Frank Hower took position, previously employed at Harding & Co.,
• 1903 - A. Clark McIntire, employed by Christine Bros, and Miss Daisy Dunham was married at home or the bride's mother.
• 1904 Wooster Directory, Christine Bros., furniture and undertakers, 22 W. Liberty St., H. B. Christine (Zimeria) undertaker, A. C. McIntire (Daisy), Clerk, Christine Bros.

Comprehensive History

Christine & Danford

Important Business Change: Partner Man of Much Experience in the Line

• Important Business Change: Partner Man of Much Experience in the Line
  • Hereafter the furniture and undertaking business of H. B. Christine, or Christine Brothers, will be known as Christine & Danford. Mr. Christine has for some time been looking for a person to whom he could sell an interest in, the establishment owing to the fact that the business has grown to such an extent that he found it impossible to look after all the details and management, and feeling satisfied that in Mr. J. H. B. Danford he ahs found the man of whom he was looking, took the gentleman in as a partner.

Mr. Danford comes to Wooster most highly recommended. He was for a number of years engaged in the furniture and undertaking business at Pleasant City, Ohio, and holds a certificate in class A from the State board, indicating that he is thoroughly competent to act as a funeral director. Mr. Danford and wife have come to Wooster to make the city their home, and if appearances go for anything, we believe that they will prove themselves, valued additions to our population.

It is the hope of the new firm to continue its former great reputation in the furniture and undertaking business in Wooster and the county. The stock fo furniture will be kept complete and up to date as possible in every. While the equipment for undertaking is large and fully up to requirements, yet it is the intention of the new firm to at once add a very handsome and modernly constructed funeral car. It is the hope of Messrs. Christine & Danford to so conduct the business as to return the patronage of the ____________.

• 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.
• 1908 - Moore's Directory shows J.H.B. Danford Funeral Director and Embalmer operating at 22 W. Liberty St. in Wooster, Ohio.

Historical documents

• 1901 - Wooster High School annual

Timeline

• 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.

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What Links Here

• Danford Company, The ‎ (← links)
• McIntire, Bradham & Sleek Funeral Home ‎ (← links)
• Wayne County Democrat, Business Abstracts 1901 ‎ (← links)
• Wooster Republican, Business Abstracts 1902 ‎ (← links)
• Public Square 1900 Wooster, Ohio ‎ (← links)
• Christine Bros. Furniture and Funeral Parlor (redirect page) ‎ (← links)