death of his father, David Sears, in 1816, he inherited a large fortune, the result of a career in the China trade. About 1820, Sears purchased some 200...
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Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears (/sɪərz/ SEERZ), is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and...
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Boston Brahmin (section Sears)
magazine Sears Family Richard Sears (1610–1676), colonist David Sears II (1787–1871), philanthropist, merchant, land-owner Clara Endicott Sears (1863–1960)...
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Eddie Lampert (category Sears Holdings people)
July 19, 1962) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the former chief executive and chairman of Sears Holdings, the founder of Transformco, and...
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small New England town of Milburn, four elderly friends—businessman Ricky Hawthorne, lawyer Sears James, physician John Jaffrey, and Mayor Edward Charles...
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Fredrick Sears and Albertina (Shelton) Sears, and grandson of David Sears, the developer of Longwood. His twin brother was sculptor Phillip Sears and his...
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Kmart (category Sears Holdings brands)
announced. In 2005, Sears Holdings Corporation introduced the Sears Essentials store format, which would serve as a Kmart-Sears hybrid. Sears Essentials stores...
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athletes of the first half of the 20th century. Sears was the daughter of Boston businessman Frederick Richard Sears and a granddaughter of T. Jefferson Coolidge...
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Augusta Russell - philanthropist, reformer, restaurateur Richard Sears - co-founder of Sears Rose Totino - co-founder of Totino's frozen pizza Hussein Sheikh...
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was inculcating in me an appreciation of capitalism." According to David M. Sears, a friend of Mentzer and an editor and publisher of his Muscles in Minutes...
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