Background
Sears, Richard Warren was born on December 7, 1863 in Stewartville, Minnesota, United States. Son of James Warren and Eliza A. (Benton) Sears.
Sears as a young man.
Sears, Richard Warren was born on December 7, 1863 in Stewartville, Minnesota, United States. Son of James Warren and Eliza A. (Benton) Sears.
Education common schools of Minnesota.
Richard Warren Sears and his partner A. C. Roebuck founded the first large-scale mail-order business in the United States and one of the world's largest retail stores. The company's extensive catalog eventually became a fixture in U.S. homes and changed the way people shopped.
Sears was the architect of numerous innovative selling strategies that contributed to his company's development.
Likewise Sears was and remains one of America's oldest operating retailers.
Member until 1895, when business was transferred to Chicago and incorporated, becoming president.
Married Anna Lydia Meckstroth, June 20, 1895.