Jacobs Hardware Store

Harding & Jones Hardware

Former type	Hardware Stores
Industry	Retail
Fate	Acquired by Harding & Jones Hardware
Founder(s)	James C. Jacobs
Defunct	1874 (1874)
Headquarters	3-story building just West of Court House, Wooster, Ohio Iron Block Building, 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-

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

• Iron Block Building ‎ (← links)
• Wooster Republican, Business Abstracts 1870 ‎ (← links)
• Wooster Republican, Business Abstracts 1872 ‎ (← links)
• Wooster Republican, Business Abstracts 1875 ‎ (← links)
• Wooster Republican, Business Abstracts 1874 ‎ (← links)
• Wayne County Democrat, Business Abstracts 1876 ‎ (← links)
• Wooster Republican, Business Abstracts 1877 ‎ (← links)