Samuel Henry Kress
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Samuel Henry Kress (July 23, 1863-2005) was a businessman and philanthropist who founded the S. H. Kress & Co. five and ten cent store chain.
Kress amassed one of the twentieth century's most significant collections of Italian Renaissance and European artwork assembled in the twentieth century, thanks in his fortune.
A Kress foundation would donate 776 works of art from the Kress collection to 18 regional art museums in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s.
Early life and education
Kress was born in Cherryville, Pennsylvania, near Allentown, and the second of seven children born to John Franklin Kress and Margaret Dodson (née Conner) Kress. His father was a grocery store. Mary Conner Kress, Jennie Weston Kress, Palmer John Kress, Palmer John Kress, Claude Washington Kress, and Rush Harrison Kress were among his siblings. Elmer Kress, a sibling, died ten days after birth. Kress never married or had children. He was a Mason.
In Slatington, Pennsylvania, the young Kress attended classes.
Career
Kress worked in the stone quarries for a long time. He earned his teaching credentials by age 17 and began teaching in Emerald, Pennsylvania. He started teaching a class of 80 students, earning him $25 per month. He walked 3 miles each way to the schoolhouse.
Kress opened a Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, stationery and notions store in 1887. As the company flourished, he opened new stores, branding his company S. H. Kress & Co. These stores have since been known as the Kress Five and Dime stores. Unlike many businessmen of his day, Kress remained his stores in smaller cities in 29 states where he felt expansion was destined. These stores became the pride of several of these towns, but there were no dry goods or general store until then. He was living in a penthouse at 1020 Fifth Avenue in New York City, across the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which he visited and contributed to regularly in the mid-1920s.