Frank Winfield Woolworth (April 13, 1852 – April 8, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company, and the operator of variety...
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estate of Frank Winfield Woolworth Woolworth, Mississippi, a ghost town in Lincoln County, Mississippi, U.S. Escort carrier, also called a "Woolworth Carrier"...
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follow worldwide today. The first Woolworth store was opened by Frank Winfield Woolworth on February 22, 1879, as "Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store" in Utica...
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Pennsylvania, and was founder of the "C. S. Woolworth & Co" chain of 5¢ & 10¢ stores. Sum's brother, Frank Winfield Woolworth, was first to venture into the retail...
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Barbara Hutton (category Woolworth family)
life. Heiress to one-third of the estate of the retail tycoon Frank Winfield Woolworth, Barbara Hutton was one of the wealthiest women in the world. She...
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Gilbert (1861–1952) for Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852–1919). The estate consists of the main residence, known as Winfield Hall; a large garage with...
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chose a new name, derived from her grandfather Frank Winfield Woolworth, who had an estate, Winfield Hall, in Glen Cove, New York. During the Second...
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Seymour H. Knox I (category Woolworth family)
with those of his first cousins, Frank Winfield Woolworth and Charles Sumner Woolworth, to form the F. W. Woolworth Company. He went on to hold prominent...
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Woolworths was a British high-street retail chain. At its height, it operated as Woolworths Group PLC, which included other companies such as the entertainment...
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Lance Reventlow (category Woolworth family)
in London, restored by his mother and named for her grandfather Frank Winfield Woolworth. Reventlow's birth was difficult and his mother almost died during...
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Buildings related to the F. W. Woolworth Company and the Woolworth family. Hollywood, Florida Tampa, Florida Chicago, Illinois New Orleans, Louisiana...
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world, following a $50 million inheritance from her grandfather Frank Winfield Woolworth. They were derisively nicknamed "Cash and Cary", although Grant...
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direct mail and the internet. In 1997, it became a subsidiary of the F. W. Woolworth Company, later known as Foot Locker, Inc. The company was founded in 1980...
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Goodyear family (section Frank H. Goodyear)
Grace Knox. Knox was known for forming the F. W. Woolworth Company with his cousin Frank Winfield Woolworth, and held prominent positions in the Marine Trust...
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Park Row in Manhattan and the Woolworth Building in 1915 when it was just finished two years earlier in 1913. The Woolworth Building was at the time one...
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met variety-store pioneer Frank Winfield Woolworth while working as a traveling salesman and selling to all 19 of Woolworth's stores at the time. In 1897...
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Woolworth Building is a historic department store building located in Kansas City, Missouri that served as a retail location for the F. W. Woolworth Company...
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America for a small general merchandise store is general store. Frank Winfield Woolworth had seen the success in Michigan and western New York of so-called...
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Island mansion of William Bayard Cutting. Winfield Hall: the ornate former residence of Frank Winfield Woolworth on Long Island in Glen Cove, New York Biltmore...
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Company in 1926 for Jessie Woolworth Donahue, the heiress to Frank Winfield Woolworth. The car was used by the Woolworth family from 1926 through 1939...
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Gothic style Woolworth Building, at Broadway between Park Place and Barclay Street, was designed by Cass Gilbert for Frank Winfield Woolworth, the owner...
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Plans for the Woolworth Building were begun in 1916 by Frank W. Woolworth, the founder of the Woolworth's chain of department stores. Woolworth began his...
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April 3 – Talbot Baines Reed, English author (d. 1893) April 13 – Frank Winfield Woolworth, American merchant, businessman (d. 1919) April 22 – William IV...
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occultist and theosophist (d. 1896) 1852 – Frank Winfield Woolworth, American businessman, founded the F. W. Woolworth Company (d. 1919) 1854 – Lucy Craft Laney...
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by Charles E. F. McCann, son-in-law of the founder of Woolworths stores, Frank Winfield Woolworth for some US$375,000, and fitting-out was finally completed...
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Hitchcock Wakelin (1834-1900) was a temperance reformer. Rodman native Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852-1919) made a fortune from his "five and dime" mercantile...
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and secured a new donated headquarters from Norman Woolworth (brother of Frank Winfield Woolworth). She was an advocate for the support of science in...
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president of the Woolworth Company in 1917. Following the death of Frank W. Woolworth in 1919, Parson (who was always thought of by Woolworth as the son he...
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pricing was first adopted in the United States during the 1870s by Frank Winfield Woolworth, the chain claims to have introduced this concept to Europe and...
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be known as the Merchandise Mart Hall of Fame: retail magnates Frank Winfield Woolworth, Marshall Field and Aaron Montgomery Ward Julius Rosenwald and...
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