Botkin lived in Missouri and East Texas before the instruments were damaged in a 1903 family house fire ... only watches and jewelry from 1888 to 1893, Sears Roebuck began issuing a general catalog in ...

When the new Sears-Roebuck catalog store opened on the south side of downtown Athens in 1959, according to the June 4, 1959 Athens Review, it was a reminder of Sears being a national commercial ...

Roebuck to repair watches, and expanded into a mail-order business for watches and jewelry, releasing the first catalog in 1887. After selling his business in 1889, Sears partnered with Roebuck ...