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	Alvah C. Roebuck (1864-1948)
		Alvah Curtis Roebuck, co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Co., was born on January 9, 1864, in Lafayette, Ind.
		It was there that Alvah attended country school, and his mother took over the family farm when her husband died in 1876.
		At an early age, Alvah showed a great interest in mechanical things, and at 16 he was already a self-taught watchmaker.
	www.searsarchives.com /people/alvahroebuck.htm (397 words)

	Poynter Online - Home, made to order
		The Morales' home is one of a handful of Sears kit houses in the Gulfport subdivision called Roebuck Park, which runs from 52nd and 53rd streets and 29th and 31st avenues south.
		Roebuck Park was name for its developer, Alvah Curtis Roebuck, who built the subdivision one structure at a time after his arrival in Gulfport in 1925.
		Roebuck was involved in Gulfport beyond the subdivision he developed.
	www.poynter.org /dg.lts/id.79/aid.103610/column.htm (849 words)

	Consumers and catalogues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Alvah Curtis Roebuck was a watch repairman from Indiana when he answered Sears' advertisement in the newspaper.
		Roebuck had always dreamed of heading west, but with the ad decided north was just as well.
		Sears, Roebuck & Co. hired the co-founder to write the history of Sears, Roebuck & Co. and to represent the company at grand-openings and press events for wages.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/INCORP/sears/searscat/roebuck.html (291 words)

	Sears, Roebuck and Co. and its Effect on Retailing in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Roebuck told Sears that he knew watches and even brought him a sample of his work to prove it.
		In 1895 Alvah Roebuck retired from Sears because of illness.
		In 1896 the first Sears, Roebuck and Co. general catalog was produced, and it guaranteed low prices, money-back guarantees, and free rural delivery, which appealed to farmers.
	www.lib.niu.edu /ipo/2000/ihy000452.html (1634 words)

	American National Business Hall of Fame, ANBHF
		Roebuck assembled the watches and Sears sold them through heavy advertising in farm magazines, and the provision of installment credit.
		Alvah Roebuck became concerned about his personal liability and decided to sell his interest in the company to Sears in 1895 (unlike Richard Sears, Alvah Roebuck was not a risk taker).
		Rosenwald carried that tradition to Sears, Roebuck, and it became a source of tension between Rosenwald and Richard Sears.
	www.anbhf.org /retailing.html (6566 words)

	Sears, Roebuck and Company Summary
		Known affectionately as "a department store in a book," "the farmer's wishbook," and the "farmer's Bible," the Sears Roebuck mail order catalogue, while not the first of its kind in retail merchandising, was certainly the most famous and the one that inspired the most imitations.
		Alvah Roebuck had to resign soon after due to ill-health, but the company still retained his name.
		Alvah Roebuck returned to the organization during the Great Depression, and worked as a spokesperson until his death some years later.
	www.bookrags.com /Sears,_Roebuck_and_Company (2181 words)

	Sears, Roebuck and Co. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sears, Roebuck and Co. has been a dominate force in the retail industry for many years, actually over a century, and has continually shown a dominance in the way that their business is run.
		Gladly, Sears, Roebuck and Co. was able to prevail and once again is starting to show dominance in the retail industry, founded now to be number two in the retail industry.
		Sears hired Roebuck and in 1893 the corporate name of the firm became Sears, Roebuck and Co. Business turned out to be very profitable for the company and in the 1890's the mail order industry for Sears, Roebuck and Co.
	academic.emporia.edu /smithwil/00spmg456/eja/pieschl.html (1601 words)

	Christian Standard
		Alvah grew up in Lafayette, Indiana, the son of a farmer who died when he was only 12.
		Alvah showed a real interest in mechanical things so it was no surprise that by the time he reached age 16 he had become a self-taught watchmaker.
		Alvah had no interest in being a watch salesman and Richard had no interest in being a watchmaker.
	www.christianstandard.com /articledisplay.asp?id=121 (1508 words)

	When did Alvah Roebuck leave Sears, Roebuck and Co.?
		Alvah C. Roebuck asked Richard W. Sears to buy out his interest in the company in 1895.
		Roebuck later returned to Sears in 1933 and worked for wages until 1940.
		Roebuck passed away June 18, 1948, never publicly regretting the fortune he missed by not staying with Sears, Roebuck and Co.
	www.searsarchives.com /people/questions/roebuckleave.htm (151 words)

	Acacia Park Cemetery and Mausoleum: Alvah Roebuck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One of these is that of Sarah and Alvah Roebuck.
		Alvah Roebuck was the partner of Richard Warren Sears in
		After a period of semi-retirement, he returned to Sears, Roebuck and Company, compiling a history of the company, until his death in 1948.
	www.graveyards.com /IL/Cook/acacia/roebuck.html (96 words)

	Invisible Heroes - Hero
		ADDRESS T39, Daily News." An Indiana lad, Alvah Roebuck, answered the ad, never suspecting it to be the luckiest day of his life.
		Alvah Roebuck and the jeweler from Redwood Falls each had a plan for success, and the dreams of Richard Sears had no place in those plans.
		Roebuck's plan had no place for a mail-order company, so he briskly stepped away.
	www.invisibleheroes.com /hero.asp?issue=132 (362 words)

	son_of_kingdavid THE HISTORY OF SEARS, ROEBULK AND COMPANY
		Richard Warren Sears and Sears, Roebuck, and Company Richard Warren Sears was born on December 7, 1863, in Stewartville, Minnesota.
		This watchmaker was a young man by the name of Alvah Curtis Roebuck from Hammond, Indiana.
		Although Roebuck decided to seek a quieter life, Sears had no intention of doing any such thing.
	www.geocities.com /son_of_kingdavid/sears_roebuck.html (2960 words)

	TIME.com: Sear's Sizzling New Vitality -- Aug. 20, 1984 -- Page 7
		Alvah Roebuck was quickly worn down by Sears' energy and sold out to him in 1895 for a mere $25,000.
		Roebuck went into other ventures, including early movies and Florida land, but then rejoined Sears in the 1930s as a traveling promoter.
		At Roebuck's death in 1948 at 84, he was again the holder of Sears shares he had acquired as a member of the employee stock-ownership plan.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,954363-7,00.html (817 words)

	Sears, Roebuck and Company Precancels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The familiar SRC-dated overprints were made by Sears, Roebuck, and Co., one of the most prolific users of precanceled stamps.
		Richard W Sears and Alvah C. Roebuck first got together in Chicago in 1887.
		They published their first mail-order catalog as "Sears, Roebuck and Company" in 1893.
	www.precancels.com /articles/srcbasics.htm (511 words)

	mail order catalogs with boys clothes : history Sears and Roebuck
		The Sears, Roebuck and Co., huge merchandising firm centered in Chicago was founded by Richard W. Sears (1863-1914) and A.C. Roebuck (1864-1948).
		In Chicago he and Roebuck joined resources and formed a corporation in 1893 as a mail-order business under title Sears, Roebuck and Company.
		Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) in 1895 bought Roebuck's interest in firm and became president on Sears's retirement 1908.
	histclo.com /fashion/store/mail/his/cat-sears.html (1826 words)

	Sears, Roebuck & Co.
		In 1887, Sears moved his watch-selling business from Minneapolis to Chicago and hired watchmaker Alvah C. Roebuck to assist him.
		While Roebuck's name would remain with the company for decades, ill health forced his retirement around the turn of the century.
		Sears soon sold the watch business and returned to Minneapolis for a time, but by 1895 Sears returned to Chicago to head a general mail-order firm.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/2840.html (713 words)

	J Rosenwald
		In 1889 Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck formed the Sears, Roebuck and Co. Mr.
		Shortly after the partnership between Alvah Roebuck and Aaron Nussbaum was formed, Julius Rosenwald joined the business team of this large mail order business.
		At the end of the 19th century, the mail order department of the famous Sears, Roebuck and Co. was unorganized, causing the delay in orders being shipped.
	txgenes.com /txrains/Misc/Jrosenwald.htm (477 words)

	LakeNET, The Information Connection for Lake County, Indiana
		Did you know that Alvah Roebuck, of Sears and Roebuck fame operated a watch repair business in downtown Hammond, on Hohman Ave.
		Roebuck took an example of his best work to the job interview and was hired on the spot.
		Not very business minded, Roebuck soon sold his share in the company, and retired to mange his investments and putter with gadgets.
	www.lakenetnwi.net /lc-facts.asp (1196 words)

	HARRIS VISIBLE TYPEWRITER; Rex, Demountable, National, Portex.
		The design for the hitherto wholly undocumented and unremarked Harris Visible was developed as early as 1908 by DeWitt C. Harris, with the assistance of his brother in a financial sense; later, Julius Keller was brought in to design and build the machine tools required to manufacture the machine.
		From an early point, perhaps before the actual factory building was purchased, there seems to have been involvement with Sears, Roebuck and Co.; Alvah Roebuck was quite interested in typewriters, and tried many times to develop or produce machines to be sold exclusively through his company's catalog.
		The Harris, like the others, would fail, leaving Roebuck to develop and produce his own machine (the Woodstock.) The Harris concern struggled on, was bought and renamed numerous times, and even produced new designs until it finally was killed near the end of the Great Depression.
	www.geocities.com /wbd641/Harris.html (1628 words)

	Amazon.com: "Alvah Curtis": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Alvah Curtis, the founder of physiomedicalism or reformed Thomsonianism, translated these three basic imbalances into scientific lingo.
		Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck became good friends and eventually became partners in the business venture which they named,...
		By 1893 Roebuck was a partner and the firm became Sears Roebuck & Co....
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Alvah-Curtis (564 words)

	TIME.com: The Wishing Book -- Aug. 16, 1968 -- Page 1
		For this reason alone, this hardback facsimile of an 1897 Sears Roebuck catalogue is a dazzling trove for students of Americana.
		It was called "the wishing book," and it was usually tattered and dog-eared by the time somebody punched a hole in it and hung it in the family privy.
		When this particular catalogue appeared, the firm of Sears Roebuck and Co.—founded by Richard W. Sears, a former railroad-station agent, and Alvah Roebuck, a watch repairman —was four years old and prospering.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,838590,00.html (686 words)

	My Jewish Books.com
		Six months later he was joined by a partner named Roebuck, and together they sold even more watches.
		Julius had worked at Sears, Roebuck for just 13 years, and now he was the President of the company for the next 24 years.
		But instead, Julius decided to be remembered not for building a modern retail company, but to be remembered for all of the Rosenwald schools that he helped to build throughout the South.
	www.myjewishbooks.com /bed20.html (694 words)

	Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum: Richard Warren Sears (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Richard Warren Sears, born December 7, 1863, died Sept. 28 1914, was the founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company
		Taking his business to Chicago in 1887, he soon hired Alvah Roebuck as a watchmaker.
		Sears resigned from his company in 1908, leaving it in the hands of Julius Rosenwald, who had replaced Roebuck in 1895.
	www.graveyards.com /IL/Cook/rosehill/sears.html (280 words)

	Sears Catalog
		Founders Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck began producing a catalog-type mailing of their wares in 1888 which offered mainly watches, jewelry and silverware, and later catalogs were introduced periodically.
		For the first time ever, the rural population was given access to items that had been reserved solely for the wealthy and those living in urban centers.
		Also in 1894, Sears, Roebuck and Company which was still located in Minneapolis and employed 80 people, opened a branch location in Chicago, which eventually became the home office.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/acs/1890s/sears/sears4.html (859 words)

	Intro to Business - Sole - Intro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1886, Richard Sears started the Sears Watch Company and a year later, he partnered with Alvah Roebuck, a watchmaker.
		By 1893, that partnership became the Sears, Roebuck and Company and Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck expanded their business beyond watches.
		Today, there are over 2,000 Sears locations throughout the United States and the Sears, Roebuck and Company generates billions of dollars in revenue each year.
	acad.fcps.org /it/bused/intro-bus/unit-ownership/sole-prop/intro.htm (171 words)

	The amazing Mr. Sears - Oldhouseweb.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck became good friends and eventually became partners in the business venture which they named, Sears Roebuck and Company.
		During World War I, the Sears Roebuck catalog was the book most requested by American soldiers recovering in overseas hospitals.
		According to Sears, Roebuck, USA: The Great American Catalog Store and How It Grew a Sears customer wrote and asked to return several bottles of patent medicine shed purchased from Sears, explaining that the medicine had originally been intended for her husband and hed since passed on.
	www.oldhouseweb.com /stories/Detailed/12268.shtml (1366 words)

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		He is the Roebuck in Sears, Roebuck and Company, which lead to modern-day Sears, the huge retail business.
		Roebuck's name does not appear in my copy American Heritage Encyclopedia, unlike his partner, Richard W. Sears, who is considered the father of the mail order business.
		Alvah C. Roebuck is another oversight in the annals of American history.
	www.thedish.org /TheDISHv2no44.htm (1917 words)

	History Lesson
		Richard Warren Sears was born on December 7, 1863, in Stewartville, Minnesota.
		Sears and Roebuck needed a printer who could handle the volume, quality and ability to produce such a large order.
		One year the Sears Roebuck Company was reported to have sold more than 100,000 bicycles to the American consumer.
	www.hhs59.com /sears.htm (1521 words)

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