James Cash Penney has done a lot for Florida. His chainstore millions built a limestone palace near Miami which Herbert Hoover used as his pre-inaugural White House. More millions went into Penney ...

Of the 300 stockholders at the annual meeting of the J. C. Penney Co. in Manhattan last week none displayed more understandable satisfaction with the proceedings than the company’s biggest individual ...

This year marks the 150th birthday of James Cash “J. C.” Penney, a Missouri farm boy who became a shopkeeper in Wyoming and built one of America’s most enduring department store chains. UW Libraries ...

American businessman James Cash Penney (1875 - 1971), owner of the JC Penney chain of retail stores, points to a picture of his first store, Golden Rule, in Kemmerer, Wyoming, during the celebration ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., sent a letter to the U.S. Postal Service Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee on Monday requesting the issuance of a postal stamp to recognize the ...

FOND DU LAC – As holiday shopping poises to hit an upswing soon, Fond du Lac is remembering stores of its past. J.C. Penney Co. opened at 52 S. Main St. in 1920, the 225th store in James Cash Penney's ...

JCPenney opened its doors in Cape Girardeau at 33 N. Main St. in 1924, 22 years after James Cash Penney opened his first department store in Kemmerer, Wyo., where frontier miners and farmers went for ...

Today in Wyoming history: In 1971, James Cash Penney died in New York City. Penney, in partnership with Guy Johnson and Thomas Callahan, opened his first store in Kemmerer in 1902. He had been working ...

Though its history in Torrance contains a 16-year gap, J.C. Penney has been operating its retail business in the city for more than 90 years. The chain itself was founded by James Cash Penney in 1902, ...

JCPenney CEO Marc Rosen and chief merchandising officer Michelle Wlazlo at the store in Stonebriar Centre in Frisco. Lawrence Jenkins / Special Contributor Sometimes the relevance of a retailer is ...