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Jul 3, 1985 · Starting with a single store in Detroit in 1899, Sebastian Kresge built a chain of hundreds of 5-and-10-cent stores that today, as the K Mart Corporation, is the world's second largest retailer.
Stanley Sebastian Kresge. Public mausoleum, second floor. Philanthropist, Businessman and Retail Heir. A deeply religious man, Stanley Kresge began his business career with the S.S. Kresge Company in 1923, moving up the corporate ladder to become vice chairman in 1953.
Sebastian Spering Kresge (July 31, 1867 – October 18, 1966) was an American businessman. He created and owned two chains of department stores , the S. S. Kresge Company , one of the 20th century's largest discount retail organizations, and the Kresge-Newark traditional department store chain.
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When Stanley Sebastian Kresge Sr was born on 11 June 1900, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, his father, Sebastian Spering Kresge, was 32 and his mother, Anna Emma Harvey, was 21. He married Dorothy Eloise McVittie on 2 October 1923, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States.
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In 1930, Sebastian and Anna’s oldest son, Stanley Kresge, was elected to the Kresge Foundation Board of Trustees as vice president. Stanley began working for the family retail business as a stock boy and was advancing through the management ranks at the time he joined the foundation.
May 24, 2018 · Stanley Sebastian Kresge, son of Sebastian Spering Kresge, founder of the S.S. Kresge Company, later known as the K-Mart Corporation, was born on June 11, 1900 in Detroit, Michigan.
During his father’s 42-year tenure on the foundation board, Sebastian’s son, Stanley S. Kresge, became a trustee and vice president in 1930 and assumed the chairmanship after his father’s passing.
