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They were the parents of Helena Maud Woolworth McCann (1878–1938), Jessie May Woolworth Donahue (1886–1971), and Edna Woolworth Hutton (1883–1917), who died from suffocation due to mastoiditis. [12]
(1852-1919) Frank Winfield Woolworth was born in Rodman, New York, on 13 April, 1852. His father, John Hubbell Woolworth, had fought as a Captain in the American Civil War. The soldier had married Fanny McBrier on his return in 1851 and had scraped together the deposit to buy a small farm.
Short biographies of members of Frank Woolworth's family, including his wife Jennie Creighton, Granddaughter Barbara Hutton and Great Grandson Lance Hutton.
This page tells the story of the early life of the two Woolworth Brothers, Frank Winfield, who was later to be nicknamed The Merchant Prince, and his lesser known brother Charles Sumner (nicknamed 'Sum'), who served and shaped the Five-and-Ten chain for an astounding sixty-seven years.
Lance Graf von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow, [1] (February 24, 1936 – July 24, 1972) was a British-born American entrepreneur, racing driver and heir to the Woolworth fortune. Reventlow was the only child of heiress Barbara Hutton and her second husband, Count Kurt Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow. His stepfathers included actor Cary Grant and ...
The company was founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852–1919), the originator of the five-and-ten variety store. …fair, held there in 1878, F.W. Woolworth originated the idea of selling a fixed-price line of merchandise.
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Frank Winfield Woolworth was born on a farm in Rodman, New York on 13 April 1852, the son of John Hubbell Woolworth and Fanny McBrier. He died at his ...
