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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] Early life. J. C. Penney was born on September 16, 1875, on a farm outside of Hamilton, Missouri.
Nov 8, 2014 · James Cash Penney: From Clerk to Chain-store Tycoon. Doug McInnis. Saturday, November 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 ...
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.
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Dec 18, 2009 · The Great Leaders Series: James Cash Penney, Founder of J.C. Penney. Before profit sharing and employee ownership became heralded management techniques, James Cash Penney used...
James Cash Penney, Sr. was born December 29, 1841, in Mirabile, Missouri. His parents were Eli Penney (1799–1871) and Mary G. “Polly” Burris (1821–18??), both from Mercer County, Kentucky. He had twelve children with Mary Frances Paxton Penney. Penney was an unsalaried Baptist minister who ran a farm near Hamilton, Missouri.
May 21, 2018 · j.c. penney. PENNEY, JAMES CASH James Cash Penney (1875–1971) was born on his father's farm in Hamilton, Missouri [1], 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. 1875-1971. Leader and Benefactor through the Depression. "In my distraught state I did not altogether grasp it clearly. But I felt that my steps had been led in some way halfway across the city to this Mission."
