James Cash Penney
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James Cash Penney Jr. was an American businessman and entrepreneur who founded the JCPenney stores in 1902.
Penney, c. 1902
Penney's boyhood home in Hamilton, Missouri, which was moved from a farm to town for display
The JCPenney mother store in Kemmerer, Wyoming, with repurposed Golden Rule signage
Frank Winfield Woolworth
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Frank Winfield Woolworth was an American entrepreneur, the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company, and the operator of variety stores known as "Five-and-Dimes" which featured a selection of low-priced mer
James Cash Penney
…the eulogy at the funeral. Penney was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City, not far from the grave of fellow retail entrepreneur F. W. Woolworth. His estate was valued at approximately $35 million. Penney was a Freemason most of his adult life, initiated into Wasatch Lodge No. 1 Free and Accepted…
Portrait photo of Frank Winfield Woolworth
Frank and Charles Woolworth with Seymour H. Knox I
Woolworth's tomb in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx
Woolworth memorialized in an architectural detail of the Woolworth Building