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Biography. Born on a New Hampshire farm on July 20, 1850, [1] Shedd arrived in Chicago, Illinois in 1871 and began working as a stock clerk for Marshall Field. [2] By 1901, he had worked his way up to a vice-presidency and took over as president upon Field's death in 1906. [1] Field himself described Shedd as "the greatest merchant in the ...
Shedd Aquarium. Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago. Opened on May 30, 1930, the 5 million US gal (19,000,000 L; 4,200,000 imp gal) aquarium holds about 32,000 animals and is the third largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, after the Georgia Aquarium and Monterey Bay Aquarium.
The board of Marshall Field and Company appointed John G. Shedd, (1850–1926), whom Field had once called "the greatest merchant in the United States", to serve as the company's new president. [5] Shedd became head of a company that employed 12,000 people in Chicago (two-thirds of them in retail) and was doing about $25 million in yearly ...
The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts, is a performing arts company, cultural arts center, and community music school in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The institute has three performance venues, various community meeting rooms, and extensive music education facilities. It presents annually an array of culturally diverse festivals, concert ...
John Haskell Shedd (1833–1895) was an American Presbyterian missionary who served in Persia during the nineteenth century.. He was born on July 9, 1833 in Mt. Gilead, Ohio. After attending Marietta College, Lane Theological Seminary, and Andover Theological Seminary, he was assigned as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) to the city of Urmia in ...
John G. Shedd, Chairman of Marshall Field & Company, philanthropist, founder of the Shedd Aquarium; Milton Sills, actor "The Heart Bandit", "The Hawk's Nest", "The Sea Wolf" Edwin Silverman, co-founder of Essaness Theatres [11] Roslyn Simon, Wife of Justice Seymour Simon, Chicago Philanthropist and Miss Philadelphia (1932)
In 1981, the Employers' Association of Greater Chicago (as the group was now known) merged with the Midwest Industrial Management Association. In 1989, MIMA changed its name to become the Management Association of Illinois. The group still has about 1,000 member companies, roughly half of which are in manufacturing and half in the service sector.
The Adler Planetarium is a public museum in Chicago, Illinois, dedicated to astronomy and astrophysics. It was founded in 1930 by local businessman Max Adler. Located on the northeastern tip of Northerly Island on Lake Michigan, the Adler Planetarium was the first planetarium in the United States. It is part of Chicago's Museum Campus, which ...