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Occupation. 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 .
Sears, Roebuck and Co. (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), 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.
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 ...
History. California Rural Legal Assistance was founded in 1966 by James D. Lorenz under the auspices of President Lyndon B. Johnson 's War on Poverty. The first meeting took place on Saturday, May 14, 1966, at 1411 West Olympic Avenue in Los Angeles, California. Those in attendance included, Cruz Reynoso, Cesar Chavez, Larry Itliong, and CRLA ...
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Aaron Nusbaum. Aaron E. Nusbaum (January 8, 1859 – July 1, 1936), later Aaron Norman, was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who is best known as one of the two men who acquired 50% of the stock in the fledgling Sears, Roebuck and Co. from Richard Sears and started it on the road to becoming a retail giant.
The Burbank store’s manager passed along a phone number for Sears’ media department; the number was not in service. The entrance to the newly reopned Sears store in the Burbank Town Center ...