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Marshall Field & company partners Harlow Niles Higinbotham and Harry Gordon Selfridge, the talented and colorful general manager of the Marshall Field department store.


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Two of his later partners survived Marshall Field and rose to new heights on their own right, one after leaving Marshall Field & Company and the USA, the other because he stayed and took over the direction of the business.

Harry Gordon Selfridge became so famous through his store in London, that most people oversee his earlier career in the USA, as head of retailing at Marshall Field & Company. Selfridge started his mercantile career in a country store of Jackson MI, which happened to belong to one of Marshall Field’s  ...

 

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