Harding & Jones Hardware

Harding & Jones Hardware

Type	Hardware Stores, Sporting Goods Stores
Industry	Retail
Fate	Acquired by Harding & Jones Hardware
Predecessor(s)	Jacobs Hardware Store
Successor(s)	Harding Hardware
Founded	Wooster, Ohio (1876 (1876))
Founder(s)	William A. Harding and W. H. Jones
Headquarters	3-story building just West of Court House, Wooster, Ohio, United States
Number of locations	1

Company name

• currently Tignor Hometown Hardware
• Retzler True Value Hardware
• Retzler Hardware
  • previously Wayne Hardware & Supply Company, 1945-1958
  • previously Wayne Hardware, 1938-1945
  • previously Welsh Hardware Inc.
  • previously Harding Hardware
  • previously Harding & Jones Hardware, 1876-

Address

• 3-story building just West of Court House, Wooster, Ohio

Comprehensive History

In 1874, James C. Jacobs sold his well-established hardware store business and the Iron Block Building to Col. Samuel Keefer, of New York city, New York. In 1876, Keefer transferred the hardware store business to William A. Harding and Willard H. Jones, also of New York and they moved to Wooster, Ohio to operate the business.

Newspaper articles

Newspaper full-text articles

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  Harding & Jones' Hardware Store. An Extensive Business Industry. Wayne County Democrat, Supplement, DEC. 18, 1878 p.2

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  Neighborhood News. Wooster. Dalton Gazette, 1879-MAR-12 p.1

What Links Here

• Retzler's True Value Hardware ‎ (← links)
• Wayne Hardware & Supply Company ‎ (← links)
• Wayne Hardware ‎ (← links)
• Tignor Hometown Hardware ‎ (← links)
• Welsh Hardware Inc. ‎ (← links)
• Business Letterheads ‎ (← links)
• Iron Block Building ‎ (← links)
• Harding & Company ‎ (← links)