Gray & Son
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- Name
- Gray & Son
- Wholesale
- Merchant Wholesalers - Durable Goods
- Founded
- 1837
- Dissolved
- Date unknown
- Founders
- 142 E. Liberty St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio, United States
- 237 Columbus Rd., Wooster, 44691, Ohio, United States
- Wooster, Ohio Sesquicentennial Celebration, June 14-21, 1958, p. 70.
- Annual Business Review of Wayne County (1887)
- 1887 - Dealers in Coal, Salt, Lime, Cement, Drain Tile, Sewer Pipe, etc.
- 1887 - Dealers in Coal, Salt, Lime, Cement, Drain Tile, Sewer Pipe, etc.
This business was started fully a quarter of a century ago by Mr. J.L. Gray, and was conducted by him up to the time of his death, since which time, under its present firm name, the business has been continued and enlarged under the ownership of his son, Charles M. Gray. This house deals quite extensively in the articles above mentioned, controlling the best grades of steam and domestic coal. The firm carries at all times the standard grades and varieties of sewer pipe, drain tile, lime, salt and cement, furnished in car load lots or in small quantities to suit purchasers, with the most complete facilities for meeting all the demands of a growing trade. Mr. Gray is also identified with the manufacturing interests of Galion, Crawford County, OH., operating one of the best equipped flouring mills of that section, in charge of Herman Plank, a practical miller. [1]
This business was started fully a quarter of a century ago by Mr. J. L. Gray, and was conducted by him up to the times of his death, since which time, under its present firm name the business has been continued and enlarged under the ownership of his son, Charles M. Gray. This house deals quite extensively in the articles above mentioned, controlling the best grades of steam and domestic coal. The firm carries at all times the standard grades and varieties of sewer pipe, drain tile, lime, salt and cement, furnished in car load lots or in small quantities to suit purchasers, with the most complete facilities for meeting all the demands of a growing trade. Mr. Gray is also identified with the manufacturing interests of Galion, Crawford County, O., operating one of the best equipped flouring mills of that section, in charge of Herman Plank, a practical miller.
Quick Facts
- 1837 - Established
- 1894-95- Wooster City and Wayne County Business Directory
- 1930 Wooster directory, 142 E. Liberty St., William L. Gray and John A. Gray, coal and builders' supplies, p. 121, 226.
Services
Dealers in coal, salt, lime, cement, drain tile, sewer pipe, etc.
Gallery
Business Letterheads
Statement from Gray & Son coal dealer dated August 31, 1912.
Statement from Gray & Son coal dealer dated June of 1919.
Newspaper articles
1885
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1887
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1917
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1918
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Newspaper citations with no attached images
- ↑ Annual Business Review of Wayne County, O. 1887 p.5
- ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio. 1885-11-19, p.3.
- ↑ Coal & Wood Yard J. L. Gray and E. O. Harrington Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio. 1887-07-16, p.3.
- ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-01-25, p. 2.
- ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-02-14, p. 2.
- ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-03-22, p. 2.
- ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-03-30, p. 2.
- ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-04-21, p. 2.
- ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-05-15, p. 2.
- ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-06-27, p. 2.
- ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-07-02, p. 2.
- ↑ Wooster Daily News. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-07-02, p. 3.
- ↑ Wooster Daily News. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-07-02, p. 5.
- ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-09-19, p. 2.
- ↑ Wooster Daily News. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-10-01, p. 6.
- ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-10-31, p. 2.
- ↑ Wooster Daily News. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-02-20, p. 2.
- ↑ Wooster Daily News. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-03-16, p. 2.
- ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-04-19, p. 2.
- ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-07-09, p. 2.
- ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-08-10, p. 2.
- ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-09-19, p. 2.
- ↑ Wooster Daily News. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-10-01, p. 6.
- ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1919-03-31, p. 2.