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Businessman. Years active. 1886–1908. Known for. Co-founder of department store Sears, Roebuck and Company. Richard Warren Sears (December 7, 1863 – September 28, 1914) was an American company manager, retail businessman and the co-founder of department store Sears, Roebuck and Company with his partner Alvah Curtis Roebuck .
Amazon might be synonymous with getting goods delivered to your door in 2017, but in 1895, Sears was the cutting-edge way to buy products. The Sears, Roebuck and Company catalog gave rural ...
Aaron Montgomery Ward (February 17, 1843 – December 7, 1913) was an American entrepreneur based in Chicago who made his fortune through the use of mail order for retail sales of general merchandise to rural customers. In 1872 he founded Montgomery Ward & Company, which became nationally known. Ward, a young traveling salesman of dry goods ...
Sears, Roebuck and Co. (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [5] commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [6]
Sears was started in the former North Redwood portion of Redwood Falls, Minnesota, by Richard Sears.
Spring Valley Methodist Church Museum: Author Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum and Richard Sears of Sears Roebuck home town - See 6 traveler reviews, 2 candid photos, and great deals for Spring Valley, MN, at Tripadvisor.
The entrance to the newly reopned Sears store in the Burbank Town Center mall on December 1. - Samantha Delouya/CNN The home goods and furniture section of Sears in Burbank, CA, on December 1.
Welcome to Historic, Downtown Rome, NY. May 2013 • Solo. The H.P. Sears Service Station Museum is like an oasis of charm and history amidst the parking garages and office buildings in downtown Rome. The museum is actually at the corner of what is considered the Historic District in Rome, North George and Liberty Streets.