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Mar 28, 2013 · Alvah Curtis Roebuck, co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Co., was born on January 9, 1864, in Lafayette, Ind., of English parentage. When Alvah was three years old, his family moved to a farm about five miles outside of Lafayette.
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Oct 31, 2018 · The October 2018 that Sears – founded in 1893 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck – filed for bankruptcy did not come as a surprise. After all, the company, which began as a...
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Oct 18, 2018 · The Sears catalog revolutionized rural black southerners' shopping patterns in the late 19th century, allowing them to avoid the blatant racism that they faced at small country stores.
Jun 18, 2012 · Alvah Curtis Roebuck. Businessman. He was the co-founder of Sears and Roebuck Company, an American retailer, which sold clothes, appliances, and housewares. Born in Lafayette, Indiana, he began working as a self-taught watchmaker in Hammond at the age of 22.
Alvah Curtis Roebuck (born January 1864, died 1948), co-founder of the Sears, Roebuck & Co. - long since shortened to Sears - was a native of Lafayette. We are told that he grew up as...
Alvah Curtis Roebuck. entrepreneur. Alvah Curtis Roebuck was a manager, businessman, and the founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company with his partner Richard Warren Sears.
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Jul 25, 2017 · African-American boycotts against Sears in the 1930s, for example, exposed racist hiring practices; in the late 1960s, welfare-rights activists revealed the firm’s discriminatory credit...
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