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	Richard Sears - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Richard Warren Sears was born in Stewartville, Minnesota....
		Richard Sears McCulloch (1818 – 1894) was an American civil engineer and professor of mechanics and thermodynamics at the Washington and Lee...
		Richard Sears was born in Stewartville, Minn., December 7, 1863.
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	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.
		Richard Warren Sears, the innovative, brash genius, has had a lasting impact on American history.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/acs/1890s/sears/sears2.html (717 words)

	sear - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sears, Roebuck and Co., leading retail company in the United States through most of the 20th century (Retailing).
		Sears, Richard Warren (1863-1914), American merchant and pioneer of mail-order selling.
		Richard Warren Sears was born in Stewartville, Minnesota....
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	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.
		Richard Warren Sears died on September 28, 1914, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, at the age of 50.
		In 1886 Richard Sears was an agent of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway Station in Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
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	Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum: Richard Warren Sears
		Richard Warren Sears, born December 7, 1863, died Sept. 28 1914, was the founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company
		Sears resigned from his company in 1908, leaving it in the hands of Julius Rosenwald, who had replaced Roebuck in 1895.
		Richard Warren Sears now resides in one of the larger private rooms in Rosehill Mausoleum, directly behind a normal-sized doorway to the outside in the East wall.
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	Sears Appliance (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sears, Roebuck and Company - Sears, Roebuck and Company is a mid-range chain of international department stores, founded by Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck.
		Sears Canada - Sears Canada Inc. (more commonly referred to as "Sears") is a retailer, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, that operates in all provinces and territories across Canada with a network of 188 corporate stores, 180 dealer stores, 67 home improvement showrooms, 112 Sears Travel offices and a nationwide home maintenance, repair, and...
		Richard Sears - Richard Warren Sears (born December 7, 1863 in Stewartville, Minnesota â“ 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.
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		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.
		Sears Modern Homes program stayed abreast of any technology that could ease the lives of its homebuyers and gave them the option to design their homes with modern convenience in mind.
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	Consumers and catalogues (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although Sears was not the first catalogue on the market, it was the fastest growing catalogue.
		Sears quickly amassed a small fortune and retired at the age of twenty-five.
		Sears' genius for marketing and advertising is what pushed the company to the forefront.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/INCORP/Sears/searscat/searscat.html (492 words)

	Julius Rosenwald Summary
		He is best known as a part-owner and leader of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and for the Rosenwald Fund which donated millions to support the education of African Americans and other worthy causes in the first half of the 20th century.
		Richard Sears resigned the presidency in 1908 due to declining health and Rosenwald was named president in his place.
		Sears, Roebuck was laid low during the post-World War I recession and to bail out the company, Rosenwald pledged $21 million of his personal wealth.
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	Practice 3: Inferring Supporting Details
		Richard Warren Sears, the founder of the Sears company, is a perfect example of the peculiarly American rags-to-riches story.
		Richard Sears illustrates the American rags-to-riches story because he began his life poor and ended up rich.
		Richard Sears's life illustrates the typically American willingness to work long, hard hours in order to get ahead in the world and become rich.
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	Sears
		Thomas Sears and Elizabeth Henry Sears and Elizabeth John Joseph Sears and Elizabeth Kerby Chesly Sears and Elizabeth C. McClanahan Malinda Margrett Sears and Scott Cyrus Freeman Lucy Jane Freeman and James Martin Lawson Donald VanHoosier Lawson and Iva Melvina Freeman Stephen Martin Lawson
		He was born in Easely township, Macon county, on July 25, 1845, and is a son of John Joseph and Elizabeth (Kirby) Sears, the former a native of Kentucky; born in 1800, and the latter of the same state.
		Sears ws united in marriage with Miss Catherine Riley, a native of Macon county (who departed this life September 7, 1908), but a daughter of parents who came to this state from Kentucky, where their forefathers helped to redeem the wilds and lay the faoundation of civilized and cultivated life.
	www.kinnexions.com /smlawson/sears.htm (3103 words)

	Chicago Department Stores & Retail Entrepreneurs
		Richard Warren Sears was born on December 7, 1863, in Stewartville, Minnesota.
		Richard focused intently on promotional advertising, placing ads in farm publications in order to reach rural customers.
		Richard retired from his enterprise due to poor health in 1908.
	www.umich.edu /~eng217/student_projects/chicagoretail/sears.htm (452 words)

	Sears Tower (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When the idea of building the Sears Tower was considered, in the late 1960s, the Sears Roebuck and Company had a income of almost $450 million each year.
		Sears had businesses with thirteen other countries in the world, Sears also had 355,000 employees working at 826 retail stores, 11 catalog plants, and 2,100 sales offices plus independent catalog stores.
		If the Sears Tower's floor space was lain out on one level, it would cover 101 acres, (16 city blocks in Chicago) In the building, there are 25 miles of plumbing, 1,500 miles of electric wiring, 80 miles of elevator cable, and 145,000 light fixtures.
	library.thinkquest.org /J001664/SearsTower.html (329 words)

	Free richard Essays
		In Richard Wright’s novel, Black Boy, Richard is struggling to survive in a racist environment in the South.
		Richard Warren Sears was born on December 7, 1863, in Stewartville,.
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	Sears pictures and videos on Webshots
		Hatterben a Sears Tower-rel - Tamas with the Sears Towe...
		Richard Warren Sears - Founder Of Sears and Roebuck
		Sear's friend Dan was feeling a little left out so I to...
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	Sears Motor Buggy
		Sears eventually sold this business but in 1893 went into partnership with Roebuck and the mail-order business Sears, Roebuck and Company was formed.
		The big Fall 1909 Sears catalogue was the first to include the Sears Motor Buggy.
		Buyers were looking for a faster, heavier, more comfortable transportation and the Sears with its tiller steering and 25-mph top speed was not what the they wanted.
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	Richard W. Sears (1863-1914)
		Richard Warren Sears was born December 7, 1863, in Stewartville, Minn., to James Warren and Eliza Sears.
		Within six months, Richard Sears’ watch business escalated so much that he resigned from the railroad in 1886 and moved to Minneapolis, where he could devote full time to his growing mail-order enterprise, which he founded that year as the R.W. Sears Watch Company.
		Sears joined forces with watch repairman Alvah C. Roebuck in 1887 and then with key financier and future president and chairman Julius Rosenwald in 1895.
	www.searsarchives.com /people/richardsears.htm (309 words)

	Richard Warren Sears — Infoplease.com
		Upon his father's death, young Sears began working in the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway at age 17 to support mother and sisters.
		Sears wrote all the catalog and advertising for the 196-page catalog in 1893; it grew to 500 pages by 1894, and 1,000 pages just a few years later.
		Roebuck sold his stake in 1895, and Sears stayed on as president until 1909 when he quit in a dispute over the advertising budget.
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		The early Sears, Roebuck and Company order books should also be called "history books," since they provide a view of the way people lived at the turn of the century, a view as accurate as any provided by the great historians of the time.
		The Sears catalogue of 1902 reveals in its offerings the dreams and needs of the people of the United States at a time when life was much simpler, and when vast numbers of people were moving westward.
		Richard Warren Sears, the original founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company, was a master of psychology and provided in his catalogue a wealth of knowledge as well as hard-sell copy to help gain the attention of his readers and to keep them as loyal customers.
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	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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 Burton, was a manager, businessman, and the founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company with his partner Alvah C. Roebuck.
		Sears entered the workforce at an early age to help supplement his family's income.
		The Sears, Roebuck and Co. was officially formed in 1893, when Sears was 30 years old.
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	Richard Sears - Moviefone
		Richard Sears.2 "If you buy a good watch you will always be...
		Consequently, at a young age, Richard Sears found it necessary to work in...
		Richard Sears - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Richard Sears Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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	Sears - Wincyclopedia
		Richard Warren Sears 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, but Sears had marketing savvy that offered Americans the convenience of modern, time-saving inventions that made way for the development of twentieth century leisure culture.
		Sears felt so successful and confident in this venture that he moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota and started the R.W. Sears Watch Company.
		Sears himself clashed with his new business partner, Julius Rosenwald, and he quit the business in 1908.
	www.wincyclopedia.com /wini/index.php?title=Sears (408 words)

	The amazing Mr. Sears - Oldhouseweb.com
		Sears father was a farmer and a flsmith.
		When Sears was about 16 years old, his father died and Richard Warren Sears went to work to support the family.
		Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck became good friends and eventually became partners in the business venture which they named, Sears Roebuck and Company.
	www.oldhouseweb.com /stories/Detailed/12268.shtml (1366 words)

	Term Paper on Richard W. Sears and Sears, Roebuck & Company
		Richard Warren Sears and Sears, Roebuck, and Company Richard Warren Sears was born on December 7, 1863, in Stewartville, Minnesota.
		He was the son of James Warren and Eliza A. Sears, both of English ancestory.
		Richard Warren Sears died on September 28, 1914, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, at the age of 50.
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	Richard Warren Sears — FactMonster.com
		Upon his father's death, young Sears began working in the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway at age 17 to support mother and sisters.
		Sears wrote all the catalog and advertising for the 196-page catalog in 1893; it grew to 500 pages by 1894, and 1,000 pages just a few years later.
		Roebuck sold his stake in 1895, and Sears stayed on as president until 1909 when he quit in a dispute over the advertising budget.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0772557.html (304 words)

	Scripps Howard News Service
		Richard Warren Sears was the founder of the company.
		Sears also would sell you a bicycle for $10, a piano for $98 or a 20-minute cold cure, one that never fails, for 25 cents.
		Sears published more than a catalog; if he thought it advisable, he would devote a full page of fine print to educate you on the insides of your watch.
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		Richard Warren Sears was the founder of "Sears, Roebuck and Company," the largest retailer in the United States in the 20th century.
		Richard was born on December 7, 1863 in Minnesota.
		At that time, Richard was the manager of a railroad station in Minnesota, and he started his own small business by buying in watches and reselling them for profit.
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	Sears, FL (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Standard Lumber was owned by Richard Warren Sears, founder of Sears & Roebuck, Inc. and when he died in 1914 the business was passed onto his widow and sons.
		Although no one lost their life in Sears the sawmill "was damaged to the extent of $10,000." Many of the other businesses and homes were also badly damaged or destroyed(Hendry County News, October 1, 1926).
		Off of S.R. 29 there is a sign that bears the name Sears Road, which marks the spot where the Sears community once stood.
	www.flhendry.com /sears.htm (282 words)

	Nie: Marketing makes the cash register ring
		In 1886, Richard Warren Sears worked for the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad and bought a shipment of watches that a jeweler had refused.
		Sears, 23, bought them for $12 each but, instead of selling them at the customary retail price of $25, he sold them for $14.
		Obviously, Sears, Roebuck and Co. did not start out in the catalog merchandise business, but that was where it ended up.
	www.sptimes.com /News/041901/NIE/Marketing_makes_the_c.shtml (1155 words)

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