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  1. Read More. In Sears. …to Chicago in 1887, hired Alvah C. Roebuck to repair watches, and established a mail-order business for watches and jewelry. The company’s first catalog was offered the same year.

  2. Dec 9, 2016 · 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...

  3. Aug 23, 2017 · An ad he had placed in a Chicago newspaper brought watchmaker Alvah C. Roebuck into the business, and by 1893 the successful partnership officially became Sears, Roebuck and Company. Sears...

  4. It was that same year he met a watch repairman named Alvah Curtis Roebuck. In 1987, both men relocated their business to Chicago, Illinois before publishing its first mail-order catalog. At this point, the company wasn’t just limited to selling watches. It now began to sell diamonds and jewelry as well. New Horizons. Table of Contents. New Horizons

  5. Alvah Curtis Roebuck was an American manager and businessman. He was the founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company with his partner Richard Warren Sears. [1] [2]

  6. History of Sears, Roebuck & Co., & personality sketch of the founders, R. W. Sears, & Alvah Curtis Roebuck. Tells how Sears got into the mail-order business, and the strangely related...

  7. Alvah Curtis Roebuck (January 9, 1864 – June 18, 1948) was one of the co-founders of Sears, Roebuck and Company with his partner Richard Warren Sears . Early life. Alvah Curtis Roebuck was born on January 9, 1864, in Lafayette, Indiana. He began work as a watchmaker in a Hammond, Indiana, jewelry store at age 12. [citation needed] Career.

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