Coffeyville / Oklahoma City / Provo / Malad City / Pittsburg / Logansport / Montpelier / Brownsville / St. Louis / Denver / Preston / Eureka / Kansas City / Simpson / Kemmerer / Colorado City / Logan Township / Dallas / Salt Lake City / New York City / Lakeland / New York / Glasco / /
Company
Chain Store Publishing Corporation / Business-Men’s Clearing House / J. C. Penney Co. / Union Pacific / Wall Street Journal / Dynamo / Wilson Humphry & Co. / Bush Hat Co. / Business-Men’s Clearing House Company / McGraw-Hill / Penney Company / Pacific Tea Company / Sams / Union Pacific Coal / /
Continent
America / /
Country
United States / /
Currency
USD / / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / Person Travel / Business Partnership / Company Expansion / Name Change / Employment Change / Funding / Judicial Event / /
Facility
W. J. Keys store / Company store / Cumberland store / James Cash Penney’s store / Kemmerer store / Brigham Young University / DeGolyer Library / University of Missouri / Shanks store / University of Wyoming / Penney Golden Rule store / Department Store / Golden Rule Store / Southern Methodist University / C. Penney department store / Kansas State University / Eureka store / /
IndustryTerm
department store chain / bank / retail / expansive chain / good buyer / loose-knit chain / retail equivalent / merchandise buyer / retail skills / organizational retail / retail prodigy / mining / /
NaturalFeature
Solomon Valley / /
Organization
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints / University of Missouri / University of Wyoming / Wyoming Institution / Brigham Young University / Kansas State University / Porter Zoo and Porter High School / Beloit High School / American Institution / Southern Methodist University / Dallas / Committee on Ways and Means / Earl C. Sams Foundation / /
Person
J. Clyde Sams Died / George G. Hoag / Bruce S. Hawn / Ellen Byron / Rollin Abernethy / Eugene F. Tinker / Edward Neighbors / Earl Corder / James Shanks / Lula Ammerman / Gladys Sams / C. C. Anderson / Lula Sams / Amanda (Day) Sams / Thomas Nelson / Jacob Shanks / James Cash / Joseph Clyde / Godfrey M. Lebhar / Roy H. Ott / Marshall Field / Dean / Earl C. Sams / William M. Bushnell / Joan Anderson / William James Keys / Mary Elizabeth Curry / Golden Rule / History / Raymond Ammerman / Green Lee / Joan Gosnell / Thomas Callahan / Norman Beasley / Christian Woidemann / Green Lee Sams / David Delbert Kruger / Letha / James Cash Penney / Mary Frances Wagley / Dayton Mudd / G. W. Ott / Frank S. Jones / Guy Johnson / Thomas Tapper / Earl Corder Sams / Earl Sams / J. B. Byars / /
Position
businessman / young storekeeper / clerk / agricultural research librarian / author / ambitious entrepreneur / CEO / charismatic entrepreneur / attorney / good salesman / assistant manager / manager / Harper / manager position / manager in title / the assistant manager of the W. J. / senior partner / store manager / president / archivist / executive / incredibly thorough business manager / politician / sales clerk / Dean / Porter / manager of their new operation / manager at a new location / sales clerk in Wyoming / /
Earl Corder Sams, who may have been as close to a retail prodigy as anyone in the history of the United States, much less the state of Kansas, is pictured in the 1930s. Photograph courtesy of DeGolyer Library, Southern M