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James Cash Penney Jr. (September 16, 1875 – February 12, 1971) was an American businessman and entrepreneur who founded the JCPenney stores in 1902. [1]
Nov 8, 2014 · The JC Penney Company, long among the world’s largest department store chains, traces its roots to a one-room shop in a small Wyoming coal-mining town. The store’s founder was James Cash Penney, a Missourian born in 1875 who had moved west after his doctor suggested his health would benefit from the region’s drier climate.
Feb 12, 2018 · J.C. Penney (born Sept. 16, 1875, Hamilton, Mo., U.S.—died Feb. 12, 1971, New York, N.Y.) was a merchant who established one of the largest chains of department stores in the United States. Penney’s first job was clerking in a general store for a salary of $2.27 per month.
Dec 7, 2017 · From inauspicious beginnings rose one of the great entrepreneurs in American history, a man with unusual dedication and exceptionally high ideals. James Cash Penney, Jr., was born September 16, 1875, near Hamilton, Missouri, to the Reverend James C. Penney and his wife, Fanny.
May 21, 2018 · PENNEY, JAMES CASH. James Cash Penney (1875 – 1971) was born on his father's farm in Hamilton, Missouri, the seventh of 12 children. He grew up in a stern, joyless family. His father, a farmer, served as an unpaid preacher for a fundamentalist sect known as Primitive Baptists.
James Cash Penney, born in 1875, left his childhood home in Missouri when he was in his early twenties and moved to Colorado. He entered the dry goods business and, with partners, opened his first store, the Golden Rule Store, in Kemmerer, Wyoming, on April 14, 1902.
Dec 18, 2009 · Before profit sharing and employee ownership became heralded management techniques, James Cash Penney used them to build the first nationwide chain of department stores.
James Penney was a young entrepreneur from the Midwest who had seen remarkable success in the first decade of the 20th century, founding a chain of stores called Golden Rule Stores, based on the industrious, ethical practices he had learned as a child.
James Cash Penney. Click some photos for a closer view... Hamilton, Missouri and J.C. Penney, the Merchant Prince. J.C. Penney was an innovator in the retail industry in the United States and contributed to the way we shop today.
Feb 20, 2023 · James Cash Penney (yes, that was his full name) learned about faith and business from his father, who served as the pastor of a small Primitive Baptist church in Hamilton, Missouri, and struggled to make a living off the family farm.
