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Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files
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Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files
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Title:
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding James Penny
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Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding James Penny
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Collection Name:
WPA Collection
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WPA Collection
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Collection Number:
WPA Bio 750
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WPA Bio 750
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Item Description:
Penny, James - Biographical information for James Cash [J. C.] Penney, Jr.; "A Famous Man Begins Career in Evanston", interviewed by E. B. [Mrs. Baden] for "Stories of Pioneer Life"; "Penney Company Founded in Wyoming 26 Years Ago", Laramie Republican-Boomerang, Apr. 14, 1928; James Cash Penney" by Elizabeth Arnold Stone, Uinta County - Its Place in History (Laramie, Wyo: Laramie Printing Co.), 192, p.157; "The Golden Rule", Kemmerer Camera, apr. 10, 1912, p. 6; "Penney to Visit Kemmerer", Kemmerer Gazette, May 8, 1936; "James Cash Penney", Who's Who in America, Vol. 19, 1936-1937, Two Years; Chicago, U. S. A., the A. N. Marquis co., 1936
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Penny, James - Biographical information for James Cash [J. C.] Penney, Jr.; "A Famous Man Begins Career in Evanston", interviewed by E. B. [Mrs. Baden] for "Stories of Pioneer Life"; "Penney Company Founded in Wyoming 26 Years Ago", Laramie Republican-Boomerang, Apr. 14, 1928; James Cash Penney" by Elizabeth Arnold Stone, Uinta County - Its Place in History (Laramie, Wyo: Laramie Printing Co.), 192, p.157; "The Golden Rule", Kemmerer Camera, apr. 10, 1912, p. 6; "Penney to Visit Kemmerer", Kemmerer Gazette, May 8, 1936; "James Cash Penney", Who's Who in America, Vol. 19, 1936-1937, Two Years; Chicago, U. S. A., the A. N. Marquis co., 1936
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Creator:
Miss Laverne G. Hutt
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Miss Laverne G. Hutt
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Location:
Kemmerer (Wyo.)
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Kemmerer (Wyo.)
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Date:
1939 February 2
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1939 February 2
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Link to Finding Aid:
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https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
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Evanston (Wyo. - Mar. 29, 1899)
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Evanston (Wyo. - Mar. 29, 1899)
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children: Rosewell K., J. C. (Jr.), Kimball, Mary Frances and Carol Marie
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children: Rosewell K., J. C. (Jr.), Kimball, Mary Frances and Carol Marie
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Penney, Mrs. Caroline [or Mary Kimball] (2nd wife, born: 1896 - married: Jul. 29, 1919, at Salt Lake City, Utah - died: 1992 - buried: Woodlawn Cemetery and Conservancy at the Bronx, N. Y.)
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Penney, Mrs. Caroline [or Mary Kimball] (2nd wife, born: 1896 - married: Jul. 29, 1919, at Salt Lake City, Utah - died: 1992 - buried: Woodlawn Cemetery and Conservancy at the Bronx, N. Y.)
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Sams, Earl C., one of subject's 1st clerks, later firm's president
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Sams, Earl C., one of subject's 1st clerks, later firm's president
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died: Feb. 12, 1971 (age: 95) at Manhattan (New York Co., Manhattan, N. Y.)
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died: Feb. 12, 1971 (age: 95) at Manhattan (New York Co., Manhattan, N. Y.)
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buried: Woodlawn Cemetery and Conservancy (Plot: Pine Plot, Sections 135, 136 - Memorial ID: 803) at Bronx (Bronx Co., N. Y.)
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buried: Woodlawn Cemetery and Conservancy (Plot: Pine Plot, Sections 135, 136 - Memorial ID: 803) at Bronx (Bronx Co., N. Y.)
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White Plains (N. Y.)
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White Plains (N. Y.)
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merchant
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merchant
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Mason
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Mason
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Baptist
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Baptist
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Johnson, Guy (store manager and employer)
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Johnson, Guy (store manager and employer)
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false
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Americn Guernsey cattle Club member
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Americn Guernsey cattle Club member
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false
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Golden Rule Mercantile Co. store chain employee, manager, stockholder and president
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Golden Rule Mercantile Co. store chain employee, manager, stockholder and president
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Hamilton (Mo. - 1895)
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Hamilton (Mo. - 1895)
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conceived unique company partnership plan (Evanston, Wyo. - 1897)
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conceived unique company partnership plan (Evanston, Wyo. - 1897)
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Business Adm., Ph.d, Boston University (Boston, Mass. - 1927)
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Business Adm., Ph.d, Boston University (Boston, Mass. - 1927)
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LL.D., Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla. - 1928
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LL.D., Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla. - 1928
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Member Citizens Committee of 1000 member
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Member Citizens Committee of 1000 member
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Broadway Temple Corp. director
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Broadway Temple Corp. director
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Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America advisory committe, member
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Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America advisory committe, member
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International Council Religious Education, director
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International Council Religious Education, director
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English Cattle Society member
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English Cattle Society member
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Kemmerer (Wyo.) site of subject's 1st stores (Apr., 1902)
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Kemmerer (Wyo.) site of subject's 1st stores (Apr., 1902)
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English-Speaking Union member
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English-Speaking Union member
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false
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Boston Univeristy Alumni Assoc. member
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Boston Univeristy Alumni Assoc. member
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false
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Royal Agricultural Society of England member
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Royal Agricultural Society of England member
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born: Sep. 16, 1875, at Hamilton (Caldwell Co., Mo.)
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born: Sep. 16, 1875, at Hamilton (Caldwell Co., Mo.)
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Penney, Mrs. Berta Alva Hess (1st wife, born: Sep. 25, 1875, in Illinois - married: Aug., 1899, at Cheyenne, Wyo. - died: Dec. 26, 1910, at Salt Lake City, Utah - buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery at Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Penney, Mrs. Berta Alva Hess (1st wife, born: Sep. 25, 1875, in Illinois - married: Aug., 1899, at Cheyenne, Wyo. - died: Dec. 26, 1910, at Salt Lake City, Utah - buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery at Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Rights:
No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstate…
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No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
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Text
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