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  Lineage Of Richard Sears
Ebenezer SEARS was born on 15 Dec 1754 in Rochester, MAssachusetts.
Lucinda SEARS was born on 27 Jul 1790 in Dover, Vermont.
Electa SEARS was born on 18 Jun 1799 in Dover, Vermont.
www.angelfire.com /on2/strictlysears/richardsears.html   (1675 words)

  
 Sears, Roebuck and Company Summary
Richard Sears was a railroad station agent in Minnesota when he received a shipment of watches which were unwanted by a local jeweler.
Richard Sears knew that farmers often brought their crops to town, where they could be sold and shipped.
Sears took advantage of this by publishing his catalog with clearly stated prices, so that consumers could know what he was selling and at what price, and order and obtain them conveniently.
www.bookrags.com /Sears,_Roebuck_and_Company   (2181 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Richard Sears   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Richard Warren Sears (born December 7, 1863 in Stewartville, Minnesota - died September 28, 1914 son of James Warren Sears and Eliza Benton) was a manager and businessman.
Alvah Curtis Roebuck (born January 9, 1864 in Lafayette, Indiana - June 18, 1948) was co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Co....
Sears, Roebuck and Company (NYSE: S) was founded in Chicago, Illinois as a catalog merchandiser in 1886 by Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Richard-Sears   (1252 words)

  
 Plymouth Colonist - Richard Sears - Descendents Report - Mark Stickels Family Family Website
Richard was one of the early members of the Plymouth colony and immegrated to America from Amsterdam, Holland.
In 1643 the name of Richard Sears appears in the list of inhabitants of Yarmouth "liable to bear arms." He was made freeman in 1652, grand juror in 1652, took the oath of allegiance and fidelity in 1653, was constable in 1660, and representative to the court in Plymouth in 1662.
In 1664 Richard Sears, husbandman, purchased for twenty pounds from Allis, widow of Governor William Bradford, a tract of land at Sesuit.
www.mark.stickels.org /FamilyTree2/-Rpt-RSearsDesc.html   (653 words)

  
 Richard Sears -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Richard Warren Sears (born December 7 1863 in (Click link for more info and facts about Stewartville, Minnesota) Stewartville, Minnesota - 1913) was a manager and (A person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)) businessman.
Within six months, Sears had netted $5,000 and felt so successful and confident in this venture that he moved to (Largest city in Minnesota; located in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi river; noted for flour mills; one of the Twin Cities) Minneapolis and started the R. Sears Watch Company.
Sears catered to the (Click link for more info and facts about rural) rural customer because having been raised on a farm he knew what the rural customer needed.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/R/Ri/Richard_Sears.htm   (661 words)

  
 Edmund Hamilton Sears
Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810-1876), a Unitarian parish minister and author, was understood in his day to be conservative and not in sympathy with either "broad church" or "radical" Unitarians.
To Sears Jesus was neither a primarily historical figure, "disappeared into the distant past," nor a subject for "theological pugilism," but an experience in daily life.
Sears," she wrote, "though I cannot quite agree with all his conclusions." He had not the temperament of a reformer, but as she observed, "He had no reluctance to incur obloquy in vindication of the right." Sears preached the equality of women and men.
www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/edmundhamiltonsears.html   (1605 words)

  
 Sears - Scraps of Family History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Richard Sears is believed to have been born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1590.
Richard and Dorothy’s daughter Deborah married Zeckariah Paddock, from which we get the Folger descent.
Richard Sears died August 26, 1676 in Barnstable, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~mcronin111/sears.htm   (163 words)

  
 Richard Sears Information
Richard Warren Sears (born December 7, 1863 in Stewartville, Minnesota – died September 28, 1914), son of James Warren Sears (a flsmith and wagon-maker by trade) and Eliza Benton, was a manager, businessman, and the founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company with his partner Alvah C. Roebuck.
The Sears, Roebuck and Co. was officially formed in 1893, when Sears was 30 years old.
Sears catered to the rural customer because having been raised on a farm he knew what the rural customer needed.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Richard_Sears   (647 words)

  
 Richard Sears Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Richard Sears was born December 7, 1863, in Stewartville, Minnesota.
Richard did a deal to sell the watches and soon had amased a profit of $5000, an enourmous amount of money at the time.
Over the years Sears focused his efforts on selling to rural communities through brochures of which he was a genius at writing promotional copy.
www.paralumun.com /bussears.htm   (87 words)

  
 R. W. Sears Bio
Richard Warren Sears (1863-1913) is considered to be one of the great American promotional geniuses, although it is generally agreed that he was not a good businessman or manager.
Sears was a complex person, and his marketing savvy offered Americans the convenience of modern, time-saving inventions that made way for the development of twentieth century leisure culture.
The famous Sears guarantee and his C.O.D. (cash on delivery) offer enabled him to gain the trust and business of farmers who were his most important and largest market segment in the 1890s.
www.bgsu.edu /departments/acs/1890s/sears/sears2.html   (717 words)

  
 Heywood Genealogy - Richard Sears
ORANGE SEARS, born December 4, 1776 in Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died in 1854 in Lyons, Wayne County, New York.
Richard Sears was probably born in Hardwick, or in the adjoining town of Greenwich, Mass., but I do not find his name on record in either place prior to his marriage in 1771.
Richard Sears, from Ashfield, was a Corporal in Capt. Isaac Gray's Co. in Col. Jon.
www.heywoods.info /s/RSears01.html   (319 words)

  
 Richard Sears
Richard's father was John Bouchier Sears and his mother was Marie Lamoral van Egmond.
Richard and Dorothy probably never had presribed stones since upright stones did not come into use in England until the time of Queen Elizabeth, and the early graves in Plymouth Colony were generally marked with a boulder.
Family members, however, state that the monument was really placed over the grave of Paul Sears, his gravestone being removed for the purpose; although it is highly probable that Paul was buried by the side of his parents.
xpda.com /family/Sears-Richard-ind00211.htm   (555 words)

  
 Sears History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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. began to take-off.
As of 1895, Sears had introduced a mail order catalog that consisted of 532 pages offering shoes, women's garments, wagons, fishing tackle, stoves, furniture, saddles, bicycles, etc. that helped customers in rural areas receive merchandise that they might not be able to receive at local stores.
In 1931, Sears noted the need for car insurance in an environment that was becoming engorged with this convenient form of transportation.
www.research.umbc.edu /~lindenme/hist102/searshistory.htm   (500 words)

  
 Richard Sears, PsyD, MBA, psychologist. Therapy, testing, and consulting - psych-insights.com
Richard is a full-time core faculty member of the Psy.D. Program in Clinical Psychology at Union Institute and University.
Richard can also present on a variety of topics regarding Eastern Wisdom Traditions (meditation, mikkyo, Vajrayana, etc.) and the martial art of ninjutsu (the art of the ninja).
Sears conducts therapy and psychological assessments for individuals (children and adults), couples, and families for a wide variety of presenting issues.
www.psych-insights.com /richard.htm   (237 words)

  
 Sears, Roebuck and Co.
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)

  
 Sears, Kmart to Merge in $11B Deal (washingtonpost.com)
Sears and Kmart, troubled in recent years by lackluster sales, uninviting stores and, most significantly, competition from Wal-Mart and Target, announced a merger today that will create the nation's third largest retailer.
Sears, Roebuck and Co., founded by Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck, came into existence in 1893 in Chicago.
Both Sears and Kmart, along with other traditional department stores, suffered at the hands of massive shopping centers, where consumers could get the same products in gleaming specialty stores and, most recently, at the hands of giant discounters such as Wal-Mart and Target, with their technology-driven efficiencies.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A56358-2004Nov17.html   (575 words)

  
 Ancestors of Jerry Landers Richard Sears   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
His will makes his "brother Thacher" a trustee of his estate, and Thacher’s son John calls Richard Sears "uncle." These terms led formerly to an assumption that his wife Dorothy was a Thacher, but that has been disproved, and it is now accepted that she was a sister of Thacher’s second wife, Elizabeth Jones.
In 1643 the name of Richard Sears appears in the list of inhabitants of Yarmouth "liable to bear arms." He was made freeman in 1652, grand juror in 1652, took the oath of allegiance and fidelity in 1653, was constable in 1660, and representative to the court in Plymouth in 1662.
In 1664 Richard Sears, husbandman, purchased for twenty pounds from Allis, widow of Governor William Bradford, a tract of land at Sesuit.
www.landersgen.com /landers/12/914.htm   (752 words)

  
 Richard Dudley Sears, 1955 Enshrinee: International Tennis Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
As one of 24 entries, he, a Bostonian, ventured onto the lawn of the Newport (RI) Casino in knickerbockers, long wool socks, a necktie and cap, and wielding a slightly lopsided racket (similar to those for court tennis) that weighed 16 ounces.
Sears, 5-foot-9 and 150 pounds, later recalled the Championships' launching in '81: "...the nets were four-feet at the posts and three-feet at center.
Sears was the first of the 19-year-olds to conquer the U.S., slightly older than Oliver Campbell in 1890, and the very youngest, Pete Sampras in 1990.
www.tennisfame.com /enshrinees/richard_sears.html   (539 words)

  
 Richard Sears
Richard Sears was born in Stewartville, Minn., December 7, 1863.
Sears received permission to sell the watches and within a month had made $5,000.
Sears catered to the rural customer because having been raised on a farm he realized what the rural customer needed.
www.oprf.com /oprfhist/searsr.htm   (327 words)

  
 Sears Profile - NYJobSource.com
Sears Holdings is the nation's third-largest retailer formed in March 2005 with the merger of Sears Roebuck and Co. and Kmart.
Sears Holdings is the leading home appliance retailer in North America and is a retail sales leader in tools, lawn and garden, home electronics, and automotive repair and maintenance.
Sears is the largest provider of product repair services with more than 14 million service calls made annually.
www.nyjobsource.com /sears.html   (454 words)

  
 :: The Houses That Sears Built
She also describes the status of the construction technology of the time, noting for example that some Sears home models were offered without bathrooms since running water and sewer systems were not available in some of the regions in which they were marketed.
One example that struck me in particular was on page 11 where she wrote, "Imagine someone pressing a handsaw into your hands and pointing you toward 620 pieces of framing lumber!" She also included many personal anecdotes about how she did her research and the humorous and heart warming situations that occurred in doing so.
This book is essential for anyone who has interest in not only Sears homes, but in the history of homebuilding in the U.S. Sears made the dream of owning a new, well-built home possible for those of a limited income.
www.k-ito.com /a/0971558817/The_Houses_That_Sears_Built.shtml   (510 words)

  
 Sears
Richard Sears was a natural salesman, and the catalog allowed him to speak to his customers in a way that they respected him.
One story that is part of Sears lore, is when one customer sent his watch back for repair after it fell out of his pocket.
Sears sent by return post a new watch with a letter saying, "We guarantee our watches don't fall out of pockets".
www.chicagology.com /Sears.htm   (410 words)

  
 'boards - Coppos signs Richard Sears
Sears: I had been at HKM for six years and I felt like it was time for a change.
Sears: Nike "Scarecrow" is kind of action based and I had done some stuff based in action and comedy.
Sears: It was shot on digital video due to budget constraints and is a work in progress.
www.boardsmag.com /articles/online/20011107/sears.html   (778 words)

  
 History Lesson
Richard Warren Sears was born on December 7, 1863, in Stewartville, Minnesota.
Richard's father gave up soon afterwards, leaving Richard to be the family breadwinner at the age of 16.
Richard Sears would soon bore of his new life and decided to start a new company with his old business partner A.C. Roebuck.
www.hhs59.com /sears.htm   (1521 words)

  
 Sears Archives Home Page
Sears has a rich, long history to tell dating back to 1886 when Richard Sears sold the first batch of watches.
However, we've boiled Sears history down to a short narrative and event timeline for you: Sears narrative history tells the story of the founding of Sears and the Sears chronology is an up-to-date primer of Sears milestones and events.
Richard Warren Sears was born December 7, 1863, in Stewartville, Minn., to James Warren and Eliza Sears.
www.searsarchives.com   (145 words)

  
 Sears Tower: 110 Storeys of the Big Store
Richard Sears could never have dreamed of such an edifice bearing his name when he brought his fledgling mail-order business to Chicago in 1887.
It was a great moment for both Sears and the Tower Bums, a group consisting of Bob Rameke, John Meyer, Jack Gallagher, and Howard Nowotarski.
Let us give thanks that Sears' request for 4.5 million square feet of space was not fulfilled by someone who decided the solution was to build the world's largest cracker box.
www.searstower.org /articles.html   (718 words)

  
 Richard Sears - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Richard Sears - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Sears, Richard Warren (1863-1914), American merchant and pioneer of mail-order selling.
Search for books about your topic, "Richard Sears"
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 Kmart and Sears to merge in an $11 billion deal - 11/17/04   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Kmart chairman Edward Lampert, left, and Sears CEO Alan Lacy, right, listen during a news conference to announce the merger of Kmart and Sears in New York Wednesday.
The merger, expected to close by the end of March 2005, is subject to approval by Kmart and Sears shareholders, regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
And earlier this month, it appeared that Sears could be shifting toward a similar direction after the disclosure that Vornado Realty Trust, a real estate investment trust, had purchased a 4.3 percent interest in the department-store chain.
www.detnews.com /2004/business/0411/17/A01-7960.htm   (1658 words)

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