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	Marshall Field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marshall Field (1834–1906) was founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago-based department stores.
		Field was born on a farm in Conway, Massachusetts.
		In 1862, Field purchased a partnership with the reorganized firm of Farwell, Field and Co.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marshall_Field (227 words)

	MARSHALL FIELD
		Marshall Field was born on August 18, 1834 in a small town near Conway, Massachusetts.
		Marshall Field was born on a farm and he remained on that farm until the age of sixteen.
		Marshall Field was a man that took pride in making his customers happy and frequently reminded his employees to, "Always remember, we are the servants of the public." It was is also apparent that Marshall Field was a good man by his company motto, "Give the lady what she wants."
	www.stfrancis.edu /ba/ghkickul/stuwebs/bbios/biograph/mfield.htm (1218 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago -- Marshall Field and Company
		For many Chicagoans of the first half of the 20th century, the practice of shopping at Marshall Field's was as much a social and cultural excercise as it was an effort to acquire the most satisfying article of clothing or piece of furniture.
		This was especially true for Marshall Field's female customers who, unlike Chicago's men and their downtown gentlemen's clubs, had few institutions at which to socialize and confirm one another's social position.
		As the wife of a professional or businessman, she was expected not only to outfit her family and their home in a manner suitable to their place (or desired place) in society, but also to cultivate social contacts that could enhance improve her husband's fortunes and improve her family's overall social standing.
	chicago.urban-history.org /sites/d_stores/fields.htm (1438 words)

	Marchitecture \| Marshall Field
		Field's wholesale profits continued to decrease until 1920, and thereafter losses were incurred; the ramifications were significant because Chicago had by far the largest market in the nation.
		Trained by Marshall Field in the wholesale tradition, James Simpson refused to accept the impending death of the trade.
		But as the dynamic president of his company and the chairman to the Chicago Plan Commission, he was an innovator and reformer and he believed in the power of architecture and planning to effect change.
	www.merchandisemart.com /marchitecture/marshall_field.html (791 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago--Marshall Field and Company
		Marshall Field was born in 1834 on a farm near Conway, Massachusetts.
		Field contributed $250,000 in capital to the new venture, Leiter $120,000, Palmer $330,000, and Palmer's brother, Milton, $50,000.
		Although Marshall Field's nephew, Stanley, and grandson, Marshall III, served as top officials with the firm during the 1940s and 1950s, the family's financial stake in the store was gradually sold off to private investors and the store's management team.
	chicago.urban-history.org /ven/dss/fields.shtml (3877 words)

	Field, Marshall - The Road to Chicago, The Field Way
		Marshall Field is considered to be one of the greatest retailers of all time.
		Marshall Field was born on August 18, 1834, in Conway, Massachusetts.
		Field bought his share of the business in 1881, and the company was renamed Marshall Field & Company.
	www.referenceforbusiness.com /businesses/M-Z/Field-Marshall.html (1663 words)

	Field (Marshall) & Co.
		He immediately began working at Cooley, Wadsworth and Co. By the Civil War, Field was a partner in the company, then led by John V. Farwell.
		After Field died in 1906 (leaving $8 million for a natural history museum in Chicago that would bear his name), Shedd became president of a company that employed 12,000 people in Chicago (two-thirds of them in retail) and was doing about $25 million in yearly retail sales in addition to nearly $50 million wholesale.
		Meanwhile, the company built the Merchandise Mart, a building in downtown Chicago that became the world's largest commercial structure when it was completed in 1931.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/2663.html (557 words)

	Soy Candle Company Akeewakee Opens Premium Candle Boutique at Marshall Field's State Street Store
		Marshall Field's and Akeewakee, a premium soy candle company based in New Orleans, today announced plans to open a boutique at Marshall Field's State Street store in Chicago on June 27, 2005.
		Marshall Field's inspiration for unexpected merchandise originates from its legendary State Street store in Chicago, which sets the bar as the most exciting destination in retail.
		Marshall Field's has a rich history of contributing to nonprofit organizations and civic causes, including support for education, arts and culture, and health and welfare through Marshall Field's Gives.
	thesoydailyclub.com /Candle/akeewakee06142005.asp (447 words)

	Graceland Cemetery: Marshall Field (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Marshall Field (1835-1906) was the wealthiest man in Chicago of his time, worth an estimated $100 million when he died.
		Field and Leiter eventually became "Marshall Field and Company", which is now one of the most successful and widespread department-store chains in the world.
		Field donated $8 million to establish the Field Museum of Natural History.
	www.graveyards.com /IL/Cook/graceland/field.html (132 words)

	wgnradio.com - WGN Radio 720 Chicago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Field's is more than just a pleasant memory for generations of Chicagoans, it helped create the modern retail industry.
		As much as Marshall Field's was integral in the building of Chicago...It was also front and center in the lives of generations of midwesterners.
		Marshall Field's was so engrained into the consciousness of the city Lundgrin said Mayor Daley wanted to bring Frango production back to State Street.
	www.wgnradio.com /news/fields.htm (1212 words)

	Marshall Field Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The son of a farmer, Marshall Field was born near Conway, Mass., and attended local schools until he was 17.
		Field was in fact the source and inspiration of the ideas that revolutionized retail selling everywhere.
		Meanwhile, Field pushed the development of downtown Chicago, so that when he died, half of his fortune, estimated to be between $100 million and $150 million, was in Chicago properties.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/marshall-field (434 words)

	Marshall Field's - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marshall Field and Co. became a public company in 1930 just as the Great Depression hit, but needed capital due to the expense of opening the Merchandise Mart to house its flagging wholesale division.
		Marshall Field was famous for his slogan "Give the lady what she wants." He was also famous for his integrity, character and community philanthropy and leadership.
		At the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Marshall Field's leadership and generosity ensured that the 26 million visitors to Chicago from 46 different countries would be amazed and inspired to bring to their homes a vision that influenced the course of development in Chicago and throughout the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marshall_Field_and_Company (4400 words)

	Marshall Field \| 20th Century American Leaders Database
		Field was one of the early pioneers in the retail industry.
		Moving to Chicago when it was still a vastly unsettled western outpost, Field built one of the largest department stores in the world.
		Field purchased items from around the world to bring cosmopolitan luxuries to his prime target audience - the growing middle class in the Midwest.
	www.hbs.edu /leadership/database/leaders/265 (80 words)

	man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		His son would die as a result of a gunshot wound and was said to be an accident in the family.
		Marshall Field made many notable donations in his lifetime.
		Before he died Marshall Field was worth an estimated $100 million.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /gildedage/culturaltourism/marshallfield/man.html (318 words)

	MPR: Target finds buyer for Marshall Field's, to close some Mervyn's stores
		Marshall Field's, headquartered in Minneapolis, operates 62 stores in eight states in the Upper Midwest.
		Brookter says Target officials wanted to see Marshall Field's continue as an ongoing business, and reaching an agreement that allowed employees to keep their jobs was an important consideration.
		Jeff Stinson, retail industry analyst with FTN Midwest Research says Marshall Fields was a better fit for Federated, but he says May probably wanted it more, to get the Marshall Field's name.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2004/06/09_catlinb_target (1303 words)

	The Oakland Press: Local News: Marshall Field's may lose name
		Marshall Field's could undergo another name change as the department-store chain is being sold for the second time in a year.
		"Marshall Field's is the biggest unknown in the entire equation," said Lois Huff, a senior vice president for Retail Forward, a consulting group based in Columbus, Ohio.
		Hudson's was a regional chain founded in Detroit by J.L. Hudson Co. that merged with Marshall Field's and The Dayton Co., which later became Target.
	www.theoaklandpress.com /stories/030105/loc_20050301019.shtml (1011 words)

	Marchitecture \| History of The Mart
		The Merchandise Mart was the brainchild of James Simpson, president of Marshall Field and Company from 1923 to 1930 and chairman of the Chicago Plan Commission from 1926 to 1935.
		The purpose was to consolidate Field's wholesale activities, which were scattered about the city in 13 different warehouses.
		In 1927, Marshall Field and Company announced its plans to build on the north bank opposite Wacker Drive.
	www.merchandisemart.com /marchitecture/history.html (1117 words)

	The Oakland Press: Auto/Business: Marshall Field's, Mervyn's for sale
		Target, the company's most profitable division, has 1,249 discount stores in 47 states as well as a direct mail and on-line business called target.direct.
		The Marshall Field's stores in Michigan were originally founded by J.L. Hudson Co. in Detroit in 1881.
		Marshall Field's was established in 1852 in Chicago and built stores in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin.
	www.theoaklandpress.com /stories/031204/bus_20040312039.shtml (830 words)

	Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Marshall Fields Company was established in 1881.
		It is tradition for Chicagoans to look forward to Marshall Fields during the holiday season.
		Marshall Fields helps with social action and art organizations, such as Project Imagine.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /gildedage/culturaltourism/marshallfield/Company.html (238 words)

	How to Start a Two-Bit Operation: Tips on Starting a Small Business » Two-Bit Bio #1: Marshall Field
		The Marshall Field’s flagship store on State Street in Chicago is considered to be one of the world’s first department stores - selling almost everything but groceries, including many imports from Europe
		With his company, he became the wealthiest man in Chicago and in 1905 he was the largest individual taxpayer in the United States (when he died in 1906, his fortune was worth about $150 million)
		Field sought out to transform the shopping experience for women, believing that women should take pleasure in shopping and have a selection of the finest goods.
	www.twobitoperation.com /blog/2006/05/15/two-bit-bio-1-marshall-field (802 words)

	Marshall Field & Company (Marshall Field Name to change to Macy's) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an allegorical woman.
		This includes discussing potential career opportunities within Federated for May Company employees and ensuring new merchandise assortments are in place as soon as possible in stores acquired from May. We will begin buying and planning Macy's assortments this October so goods are in-store during the third quarter of 2006," Lundgren said.
		The company reiterated its pledge that there will be no workforce reductions or job eliminations as a result of the merger prior to March 1, 2006.
	www.fees.com /marfielcom.html (996 words)

	Marshall Field and Company Store
		The main Marshall Field and Company Store today is not one but several buildings.
		The two most familiar sections, along State Street between Randolph and Washington, were designed by D. Burnham and Company.
		The north building was completed in 1902, and the south building, also twelve stories, was erected five years later.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/200400.html (102 words)

	COMPANY NEWS; Dayton Clearance On Marshall Field - New York Times
		The Marshall Field stores will become part of the department store division of Dayton Hudson.
		Gary Witkin, Marshall Field's former executive vice president of stores, has been named president of the Field's unit.
		Field's chairman, Philip B. Miller, and president, Burnett W. Donoho, announced their resignations in late April.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEFD71F3AF930A15755C0A966958260 (186 words)

	HAT - So long Marshall Field's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The company announced today that all Marshall Field's stores would be converted to Macy's in the fall of 2006.
		All May Company division headquarters employees who remain with the company until March 1, 2006, and are thereafter separated involuntarily will receive severance packages and outplacement assistance.
		All May Company corporate employees who remain with the company until March 1, 2006, and are thereafter separated involuntarily will receive severance packages and outplacement assistance.
	homeaccentstoday.com /article/CA6258558.html?industryid=23169&...+News (1034 words)

	cbs2chicago.com - Marshall Field's Changes To Macy's In September
		The chairman of federated says the company understands how important State Street Marshall Field's memories have been to Chicagoans.
		Those green awnings will go fl in September when Marshall Field’s becomes Macy’s on State, but the old metal Marshall Field and Company signs will stay on, and so will much of the old store’s traditions because customers demanded it.
		Marshall Field's will become Macy's on State Street in September.
	cbs2chicago.com /topstories/local_story_117121027.html (498 words)

	cbs2chicago.com - Marshall Field's To Undergo Name Change
		On Tuesday, Federated Department Stores Inc., said it is planning to change to Macy's the name of all 62 Marshall Field's, including the one on State Street that dates back to 1892.
		The name change is expected to go in effect next summer for all 62 Marshall Field's stores in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Indiana, Ohio and South Dakota.
		In fall 2006, the Marshall Field's name, the marker of State Street since 1881, will be no more.
	cbs2chicago.com /topstories/local_story_263113122.html (1056 words)

	Field (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		orn in 1834, Marshall Field, son of the John and Fidelia Field, spent his early life on the family farm in Conway MS.
		In 1862, Field purchased a partnership with the reorganized firm of Cooley, Farwell, and Co..
		Field would eventually go on to buy out both Potter Palmer and Levi Leiter and to establish Marshall Field and Company.
	www.historic-impressions.com /field.htm (185 words)

	Marshall Field and Company after Marshall Field
		How management acquired majority of Marshall Field common stock, succession of presidents Shedd, Simpson, McKinlay and McBain, to the acquisition by Target Corp. and Federated Department Stores.
		Dayton-Hudson became Target Corporation in the year 2000, re named after its successful discount stores subsidiary, and in 2001, the Marshall Field name was applied to the corporation’s historic department stores in Minneapolis (Dayton) and Detroit (Hudson).
		In 2004 the Marshall Field division with 62 stores was sold to...
	raken.com /american_wealth/merchant_princes/Marshall_Field_Family_5.asp (148 words)

	Marshall Field and Company
		By the early 1900s, with the intention of expanding the store even further, Marshall Field set out to purchase all the remaining properties in the city block bounded by Washington, State, Wabash, and Randolph Streets.
		Toward the center of the block was the building's front portico (seen below), where Marshall Field's wealthiest and most elite customers would be greeted by well-mannered doormen and politely escorted inside the store.
		The portico was set off by four marble Ionic columns and was meant to suggest not only the firm's economic might and financial stability--recall, most banks and municipal buildings utilized neoclassical design elements--but also the store's apparent authority and reliability in matters of fashion and cultural tastes.
	ah.phpwebhosting.com /a/OUTofBFLO/chi/marsh/index.html (326 words)

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