Antique CB Woodworth & Sons NY Bottle BUTTON HOLE BOUQET HANDKERCHIEF EXTRACT

This is a rare find! No cracks or chips, stopper metal top part can be pulled out. Some fading and ware damages to labels as shown. This bottle was made before 1893 sometime because in 1855 CB Woodworth and Sons Company was established and that is when this name. So probably older than 1893. In this guide I have listed the various perfumes presented by Chauncey B. Woodworth and Sons of Rochester, New York. The CB Woodworth Sons Co. Frank E Woodworth, President and Treasurer. Harry S Woodworth, Secretary and General Manager. Rochester and the Post Express, 1895. Woodworth, merchant and financier, is one of the leading citizens and business men of Rochester. His father, Spencer Woodworth, one of the pioneers of Monroe county, came from South Coventry in Tolland County, Connecticut, to the town of Gates in the Summer of 1819, he located about a mile and a half west of the city of Rochester on what is known as the Chili road. The family made its journey from Connecticut in one of the large covered wagons used in early days there being then no other means of travel to this section. On June 9, 1819, they arrived at the tavern of Oliver Culver in Brighton where they halted for the night.

The whole of the following day was spent in reaching their new home so little had been done towards opening a road that they were obliged to travel by way of The Rapids, following as best they could, a line of marked trees. In the family of this pioneer, was his infant son Chauncey, who had been born on February 25, 1819, and was consequently about four months old at the time of the migration. The youth remained at the parental home, devoting a share of each year to the acquirement of such education as was available until he was twenty one years of age. He then engaged in the grocery business in Rochester, on the corner of East Main and North St Paul Streets, thus for the first time identifying himself with the interests of the city, which has since felt in so many ways the influence of his energies. In 1853, in company with Jones & Osburn, he built the Crystal Palace block on East Main street.

A few years later, he removed to his present place of residence on South Washington street. Down to this time success had crowned his efforts. He now engaged in the business that has ever since occupied a large share of his attention, and has made his name a household word throughout the length and breadth of the land. CB Woodworth's extracts and perfumes are known wherever such goods are in demand, and that is almost everywhere. To supply his great and growing industry with bottles, he in 1866, associated himself with Dr Frederick H James in the manufacture of glass. Three years later in 1869, Mr. Woodworth was succeeded in the manufacture of extracts and perfumes by his sons, Frank E and Harry S, who in the spring of 1894 organized and incorporated the CB Woodworth Sons Company, which still continues the business with the same high standard of influence and popularity. Woodworth been content with his great and growing business. To him Rochester is in a great measure indebted for her great and successful street railroad system. He then joined with others, reorganized the company extended the tracks and other facilities until there were few cities in the country more thoroughly and satisfactorily supplied with street car accommodations than Rochester. He has just completed the Woodworth building, corner of State and Platt streets, which is one of the finest and largest commercial structures in Rochester. It is of steel faced with brick and absolutely fireproof. He also owns a number of buildings of equal prominence.

Woodworth is a strong man in party politics, but has never sought public office. In 1852, he was elected sheriff of Monroe county, and served faithfully and well. He was formerly a trustee of the Mechanics Saving Bank, and for many years has been a trustee of the Rochester Theological Seminary.

From 1864 to 1894, he was a director of the Flour City National Bank, and for ten years its first vice president. He is a director and second vice president of the Rochester Trust and Safe Deposit Company, its largest individual stockholder and was foremost among its originators. He has been a member of the Second Baptist Church for more than forty years, and a trustee most of the time. Woodworth is a direct descendant of Walter Woodworth, who came to America in 1648 from Kent County, England. Several of his early ancestors were prominent in the Revolutionary War, notably his maternal grandfather John Clark, who served for seven years in that struggle.

On the 5th of January 1841, Mr. Woodworth was married to Miss Martha Smith, daughter of Clark Smith of Boston, Mass. They have had five children: Chauncey C, Frank E, Harry S, Helen A (Mrs Elmer C Smith) and Lillie (deceased). Married Martha Smith in 1841.

1843 - Chauncey Clark Woodworth born. 1854 - Lillie J Woodworth, daughter of CB Woodworth dies. 1855 - Established as CB Woodworth and Sons Company. Leaves the firm in 1887. 1869 - Chauncey B Woodworth retires from his perfume business and was succeeded by his sons, Frank E and Henry (Harry) S. 1893 - Renamed Woodworth Inc.

1917 - John Alexander, the perfumer for Woodworth for 62 years, dies in November. 1922 - A branch was opened in France, named Parfums Woodworth SA. Located at 44 rue de Lisbonne, Paris, which was owned by Woodworth Inc.

1929 - Woodworth became a subsidary company of International Perfume Inc of New York and was marketed under its Bourjois Paris label.