Richard Sears Biography

Richard Sears was born December 7, 1863, in Stewartville, Minnesota.

At 17, Richard had worked in the Railway. Sears good fortune started when a retailer refused shipment of pocket watches. Richard did a deal to sell the watches and soon had amased a profit of $5000, an enourmous amount of money at the time. In 1886, Richard founded the R. W. Sears Watch Company.

Over the years Sears focused his efforts on selling to rural communities through brochures of which he was a genius at writing promotional copy.

Richard Sears died in 1913.

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