J C Penny
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The home of the first JC Penny store
was Kemmerer, Wyoming and Kemmerer is next door to the town of
Frontier, where the John Richard Roberts family settled.
John
Richard Roberts(3) is the son of Hugh(1) and Margaret(2) Roberts and
the older brother of Isaac Roberts(5).
The John Richard Roberts family was
already living in Kemmerer when the store was opened 111 years ago;
14 April 1902.
The first store was named The Golden
Rule store and was a partnership between James Cash Penny, Jr., Guy
Johnson and Thomas Callahan. The reason Mr. Penny opened that first
store in Kemmerer: “I chose that because, I thought that I could
get to the hearts of the people quicker, in a small town, than I
could in a large town.” (Interview with Edward R Murrow in 1957,
CBS, Person to Person see CBS News Sunday morning source.)
(Sources: Wikipedia J. C. Penny online
and CBS News Sunday Morning, air date 14 April 2013.)
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