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John Wanamaker, the founder of the store that bears his name, was unable to join the U. S. Army during the American Civil War because of a persistent cough.
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After the fair, it was placed into storage, and eventually purchased by John Wanamaker for his new Wanamaker's store in Philadelphia.
The great organ in Festival Hall eventually became the nucleus of the Wanamaker Organ in John Wanamaker's palatial Philadelphia department store, where a famous bronze eagle from the German exhibits is also displayed in the Grand Court.
* Information on the great pipe organ in Festival Hall that was installed in the John Wanamaker department Store in Philadelphia.
George " Florida " Roberts was a fishing guide for figures such as land developer Walter Fuller, Cecil B. Detre, and John Wanamaker.
" might be the origin of the common Marketing quote " I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half ", falsely attributed to John Wanamaker.
Cheltenham also served as the home of some of the wealthiest people in the history of the United States, most notably, John Wanamaker, Peter Widener, William Lukens Elkins, John B. Stetson, Henry W. Breyer, Jr., Cyrus H. K.
The sponsorship of an American transcontinental tour by the John Wanamaker department store interests rocketed his name into international prominence.
John Wanamaker ( July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922 ) was a United States merchant, religious leader, civic and political figure, considered by some to be the father of modern advertising and a " pioneer in marketing.
In 1869, he opened his second store at 818 Chestnut Street and capitalizing on his own name ( due the untimely death of his brother-in-law ), and growing reputation, renamed the company John Wanamaker & Co.
In 1875 he purchased an abandoned railroad depot and converted it into a large store, called John Wanamaker & Co. " The Grand Depot ".
John Wanamaker's son Thomas B. Wanamaker, who specialized in store financial matters, purchased a Philadelphia newspaper called The North American in 1899 and irritated his father by giving regular columns to radical intellectuals such as single-taxer Henry George, Jr., socialist Henry John Nelson ( who later became Emma Goldman's lawyer ), and socialist Caroline H. Pemberton.
John Wanamaker opened his first New York store in New York City in 1896, continuing a mercantile business originally started by Alexander Turney Stewart, and continued to expand his business abroad with the European Houses of Wanamaker in London and Paris.
Philadelphia's John Wanamaker performed a 19th century redevelopment to the former Pennsylvania Railroad terminal in that city and eventually opened a modern-day department store in the building.
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John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, believed in an intermediate state between death and the resurrection of the dead and in the possibility of " continuing to grow in holiness there ", but Methodism does not officially affirm this belief and denies the possibility of helping by prayer any who may be in that state.
John Wesley, the founder of the movement, was not prepared to allow unordained preachers to administer the sacraments: " We believe it would not be right for us to administer either Baptism or the Lord's Supper unless we had a commission so to do from those Bishops whom we apprehend to be in a succession from the Apostles.
His colonial ancestors included John Pike ( 1613-1688 / 1689 ), the founder of Woodbridge, New Jersey.
The software is developed and sold by Autodesk, Inc., first released in December 1982 by Autodesk in the year following the purchase of the first form of the software by Autodesk founder, John Walker.
Other authors who used the name were Major John Bernard Arbuthnot MVO, the column's founder, and William Hartston, the current author of its revived form.
Behaviorism insisted on working only with what can be seen or manipulated and in the early views of John B. Watson, a founder of the field, nothing was inferred as to the nature of the entity that produced the behavior.
Lagow provided the animal to Texas Parks and Wildlife officials for identification, but Lagow reported in a September 17, 2006 phone interview with John Adolfi, founder of the Lost World Museum, that the " critter was caught on a Tuesday and thrown out in Thursday's trash.
Dartmouth alumni serving as CEOs or company presidents include Charles Alfred Pillsbury, founder of Pillsbury Company and patriarch of Pillsbury family, Sandy Alderson ( San Diego Padres ), John Donahoe ( eBay ), Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. ( IBM ), Charles E. Haldeman ( Putnam Investments ), Donald J.
One form is equality of persons in right, sometimes referred to as natural rights, and John Locke is sometimes considered the founder of this form .< ref > Arneson Richard, " Egalitarianism ", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( 2002.
John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume were the primary exponents of empiricism in the 18th century Enlightenment, with Locke being the person who is normally known as the founder of empiricism as such.
Other influential conservationists of the Progressive Era included George Bird Grinnell ( a prominent sportsmen who founded the Boone and Crockett Club ), the Izaak Walton League and John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club in 1892.
In 1536, with Protestantism in the ascendancy, John Calvin, the founder of Calvinism, became the spiritual leader of the city.
Henry was the third child of King John I of Portugal, founder of the Aviz dynasty, and of Philippa of Lancaster, John of Gaunt's daughter.
* 1888 – John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society ( b. 1815 )
John Ono Lennon, MBE, born John Winston Lennon ( 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980 ) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member
More substantial backing came from John Roebuck, the founder of the celebrated Carron Iron Works, near Falkirk, with whom he now formed a partnership.
In 1897 the Pender Laboratory was founding at University College, London and Fleming took up the Pender Chair after the £ 5000 was endowed as a memorial to John Pender, the founder of Cable and Wireless.
* Sir John Brown ( industrialist ) ( 1816 – 1896 ), UK inventor of a process for rolling armor-plate and founder of the Atlas steelworks, Sheffield Towers
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