Marshall Field

Marshall Field ( born August 18, 1834 in near Conway, † January 16, 1906 in New York City ) was an American businessman who founded the department store chain Marshall Field and Company.

Marshall Field was born in 1834 on a farm near Conway in Massachusetts. In 1856 he moved to Chicago, where he worked his way in the retail companies Cooley, Wadsworth, and Company to the partner. After he had taken over the business he founded in 1865 Field, Palmer and head, which should be at Marshall Field and Company, 1881.

In 1893 he gave a million dollars for the construction of the Columbian Museum at the World Exhibition in Chicago. After his death in 1906 he left behind a foundation over $ 8,000,000 for a natural history museum in Chicago, which was named after him Field Museum of Natural History.

Source

  • Marshall Field Biography in: Encyclopædia Britannica
  • Entrepreneurs (United States)
  • Born in 1834
  • Died in 1906
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