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Charles G Jewett Hardware and Plumbing, Howell, Michigan
Charles G. Jewett (1847-1927) had a hardware and plumbing business, 101 E. Grand River, Howell
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Charles Sutton Day, Hardware Old Timers Reunion, Howell, Michigan 1976-08-18
Sutton's Hardware, Charles Sutton Day, Hardware Old Timers Reunion -
Charles Sutton, Owner of Sutton's Hardware, Howell, Michigan - 1949
Owner of Sutton's Hardware, Howell, Michigan
Charles Sutton, member of Howell City Council - 1949
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Duane and Marguerite Baldwin, owners of Baldwin's Hardware, Howell, Michigan - 1976
Duane and Marguerite Baldwin
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Duane Baldwin, Baldwin's Hardware, Howell, Michigan - 1972
Duane Baldwin, owner of Baldwin's Hardware - 1972 -
E. G. Westphal Hardware, Cohoctah Township, Howell, Michigan, Hardware Store
This is a photograph of Cohoctah showing the E. G. Westphal Hardware Store. In The Howell Bicentennial History and Photographic Supplement, p.320 the caption of this picture says "Hardware store in W. Cohoctah later called Sprungtown."
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East Cohoctah, Cohoctah Township, Livingston, Michigan, E. G. Westphal Hardware Store
This is a photograph of East Cohoctah showing E. G. Westphal Hardware.
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George W. Reason (1837-1926)
He was a well known businessman in Pinckney, owning a hardware store as well as selling buggies and farm machinery. His farm was near the Putnam and Unadilla Township, Livingston County, Michigan line. Reason road is in that area.
In addition to the hardware business Mr. Reason also sold coal, but his chief interest was in the sale of buggies and farm machinery. He left the store work to others. He traveled the country in his horse and buggy selling his favorites. He sold more buggies than any other dealer in the section, his sales some years being over 300. The same held true for farm machinery. He would take (customers') old buggies and machinery in trade for stock or anything of value.
The buggies used to come all wrapped in paper to prevent marring...53 buggies in 70 days was one record.
There were many stories told of him. One illustrates his shrewdness. At one time the country farm advertised for bids for a binder. Mr. Reason's bid was lowest and he got the sale. He sent for a man named Corwin to set it up, who told the following story. He found Mr. Reason had sold the binder at cost and said, "I don't see where you make anything on this." Mr. Reason said, "Wait and see." When the poor farm superintendent came for the binder, he had a lumber wagon which Mr. Reason loaded with pitchforks, shovels and hardware, a year's supply for the farm. Then he turned to the machinery company man and said, "Now do you see the profit in that binder?"
Mr. Reason was quite a builder. He built the W.H. Meyer Building which was his store, the Lee Lavey store and the building formerly occupied by the tavern. He also built a roller skating rink on the site later occcupied by the bowling alley. This burned in 1921.
(This information was gathered by a descendant, Dorothy Reason Malette).
His wife was Sarah Barley Reason. They had three daughters and two sons. -
Howell Chamber of Commerce, Howell, Michigan, 50th Anniversary Photos (1999); Sidewalk Daze, 1950's
In 1999, Howell Chamber of Commerce, Howell, Michigan, celebrated its 50th Anniversary and used a number of photographs to mark the event.
In this photograph from the late 1950's, Sidewalk Dazes is happening. Howard Pyles is roped by Joe Harris in front of Sutton's Hardware, 121 - 123 West Grand River Avenue. Howard Pyles and Arnold Heino owned Sutton's Hardware, and it was later owned by the Shaw's. Joe Harris was the owner of Diamond Dot Market on M-59 in Howell. -
Main Street, Pinckney, Michigan, 1920's
This is a photograph of Main Street, Pinckney, Michigan in the 1920's. The store to the left is Reason and Shehan Hardware Store, which later was Clark store.
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