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Richard Warren Sears (December 7, 1863 – September 28, 1914) was an American businessman who co-founded the department store Sears, Roebuck and Company with his partner Alvah Curtis Roebuck. Early life
Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [6] 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-order catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [7]
Roebuck co-founded Sears, Roebuck and Company with Richard Warren Sears in 1891. [1] [2]In 1895, Roebuck asked Sears to buy him out for about $20,000. At Richard Sears's request, Roebuck took charge of a division that handled watches, jewelry, optical goods, and, later, phonographs, magic lanterns and motion picture machines.
Ward's catalog soon was copied by other enterprising merchants, most notably Richard Warren Sears, who mailed his first general catalog in 1896. Others entered the field, and by 1971 catalog sales of major U.S. firms exceeded $250 million in postal revenue.
What comes to your mind when you think of an iceberg? You might conjure up scenes from the Titanic movie when the "unsinkable" ship collided with an iceberg and was swallowed by the icy waves of ...
Richard Sears may refer to: Richard Warren Sears (1863–1914), founder of Sears, Roebuck and Co. Richard Sears (pilgrim) (1595–1676), early settler of Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Richard Sears (tennis) (1861–1943), American tennis player; Dick Sears (politician) (1943–2024), Vermont state senator
Richard Warren Sears, founder of Sears, Roebuck, and Co, began his retail sales career by selling unclaimed watches while serving as a station agent for the railroad in Wolsey in the early 1880s. Ben H. Radcliffe, South Dakota State Senator
Richard Sears worked to transform the Holly Springs community into one of the desirable places to live in Wake County in his two decades of public service. Longtime Mayor Dick Sears, led Holly ...