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Ricky R. Washington Jr., 45, of Topeka, was the man killed in Sunday morning’s double shooting in central Topeka, police said Tuesday. Police still weren't making public the name, age or gender ...
Wanamaker, c.1890. John Wanamaker (July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922) was an American merchant and religious, civic and political figure, considered by some to be a proponent of advertising and a "pioneer in marketing". [1] He served as United States Postmaster General in the Benjamin Harrison administration from 1889 to 1893.
Wanamaker 's, originally known as John Wanamaker Department Store, was one of the first department stores in the United States. Founded by John Wanamaker in Philadelphia in 1861, it was influential in the development of the retail industry including as the first store to use price tags.
Lewis Rodman Wanamaker (February 13, 1863 – March 9, 1928) was an American businessman and heir to the Wanamaker's department store fortune. [1] In addition to operating stores in Philadelphia , New York City , and Paris , he was a patron of the arts, education, golf, athletics , a Native American scholar, and of early aviation.
A Topeka developer has been buying available properties in the area of S.W. 6th and Wanamaker in Topeka for the past two years. Klaton LLC and Klaton Properties LLC, owned by Jim Klausman and ...
Rodman Wanamaker sponsored Dixon, who named the project "the Rodman Wanamaker Expeditions to the Indians". Dixon was the "educational director" (essentially a public relations worker) of Philadelphia department store Wanamaker's. Wanamaker's had been founded in 1876 by Rodman's father John Wanamaker. By the turn of the century, it had grown ...
Rick Wanamaker (born 1948), American athlete and basketball player; Rodman Wanamaker (1863–1928), donor of the Wanamaker Trophy, son of John; Sam Wanamaker (1919–1993), American actor and movie director, founder of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London; Zoë Wanamaker (born 1949), American-British actress; daughter of Sam
Mary Brown Wanamaker Warburton (1869 – November 18, 1954) was an American social and political leader. She was the first woman to head the Pennsylvania Republican Committee . [ 1 ] She was a daughter of U.S. Postmaster General John Wanamaker and wife of publisher Barclay Harding Warburton I .