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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Look up Woolies or Woolworth's in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Woolworth, Woolworth's, or Woolworths may refer to: F. W. Woolworth Company, the original...
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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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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 World...
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Woolworth Estate, also referred to Winfield Hall, is a historic estate located at Glen Cove in Nassau County, New York. It was designed in 1916 by architect...
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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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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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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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Lance Reventlow (category Woolworth family)
inherited the Woolworth department store fortune and was then one of the wealthiest women in the world. Reventlow was born at Winfield House in London...
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