[DOC] [TLE] Marshall Field's - Wikipedia [PAR] Marshall Field & Company, commonly known as Marshall Field's, was an upscale 
department store in Chicago, Illinois that grew to become a major chain before 
being ... In 1856, 21-year-old Marshall Field, (1834-1906), moved to the booming 
... Pittsfield, Massachusetts, finding work at the city's then-largest dry goods firm... [DOC] [TLE] Check and uncheck as needed to select sections to print. Then ... [PAR] Conway, Mass., Aug. 18, 1834, d. Jan. 16, 1906, was a clerk in a Pittsfield, Mass., 
dry-goods store before moving to Chicago in 1856. In 1865 he ... The last 
remaining Field family stock in the department store was sold in 1965. The 
Chicago... [DOC] [TLE] Marshall Field's -- Company History [PAR] 1906: Marshall Field dies, leaving ownership of his company to a complex family 
.... Field moved to Chicago from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1856, having been ... 
to be exact, Aaron Montgomery Ward briefly clerked for the firm before founding 
.... retail division from a dry goods store into a modern full-line department store. [DOC] [TLE] Chicago Department Stores & Retail Entrepreneurs [PAR] Marshall Field was born on August 18, 1934, near Conway, Massachusetts. ... of 
16, Field secured employment as a dry-good clerk in a general store in Pittsfield, 
... a clerk for Cooley, Wadsworth & Co., a leading dry-goods house, becoming a 
junior ... When Field passed away in 1906 he was the wealthiest man in Chicago,
... [DOC] [TLE] Marshall Field facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] He virtually created the modern department store, and he played a large role ... 
years before leaving Conway to work at a store in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. ... He 
wanted to move west, and by the end of the year he had settled in Chicago, 
Illinois. ... with Cooley, Wadsworth and Company, the largest dry-goods store in 
the city... [DOC] [TLE] How Marshall Field Succeeded | Mises Institute [PAR] Feb 21, 2011 ... At the age of 18 he moved to Chicago  then only a fledgling city and ... "My 
first venture in trade was made as clerk in a country store at Pittsfield, 
Massachusetts, ... "In Chicago, I entered as a clerk in the dry goods house of 
Cooley, ... In 1856, when Mr. Field, fully equipped for a successful mercantile... [DOC] [TLE] Field, Marshall - Overview, Personal Life, Career Details, Social and ... [PAR] After five years, his employer in Pittsfield offered him a partnership, but Field 
declined. ... Upon moving to Chicago, Field obtained work as a clerk in a dry 
goods store ... store clerk to the co-owner of one of the largest department stores 
in Chicago ... 1856: Moved to Chicago and worked as clerk at Cooley, 
Wadsworth & Co. [DOC] [TLE] Marshall Field and the Rise of the Department Store - Center for ... [PAR] department store after having been in business since the mid-nineteenth century. 
.... family's move to Lowell, Massachusetts in the antebellum period, one .... 
Marshall Field obtained a position as a clerk for the dry goods firm, earning $400 
a year ( ... millionaire owner of Chicago's largest and most fashionable dry-goods
... [DOC] [TLE] Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, with commemorative biographies ... [PAR] 1870 to 1871. In 1872 Mr. Brown moved to Chicago. .... entered upon a 
mercantile career as clerk in a dry-goods store at Pittsfield, Mass., but,in 1856, 
came to... [DOC] [TLE] Timeline 1850-1854 - Timelines of History [PAR] He was the first Chicago merchant to give his employees a half-day off on 
Saturdays. ... It allowed slave owners to reclaim slaves who had escaped to other 
states. .... 1850 Marshall Field (16) started working a dry goods clerk in Pittsfield, 
Mass. In 1855 .... 1850 In Hong Kong the Lane Crawford department store first 
opened. [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Historical encyclopedia of

Question: Before moving to Chicago in 1856, this department store owner clerked in a Pittsfield, Mass. dry goods store
Answer: Marshall Field