The S. S. Kresge story
The S. S. Kresge story
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Biography of Sebastian Spering Kresge (1867-1966), and autobiography of his son (the author), Stanley Sebastian Kresge (b.1900). The father founded the S.S. Kresge Company as a single five-and-dime store in downtown Detroit in 1899. Includes history of the company, which opened its first K-Mart in 1962, and changed its name to K-Mart Corporation in 1977. Sebastian Spering Kresge also founded the Kresge Foundation, a charitable institute. He was a direct descendant of Conrad Kresge, a Swiss immigrant to Monroe County, Pennsylvania in 1748.
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