The S. S. Kresge story
By: by Stanley S. Kresge, as told to Steve Spilos.
Contributors: Spilos, Steve.
Publisher: Western Pub. Co.
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Racine, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Kresge, Sebastian Spering, 1867-1966.; S.S. Kresge Company.; Kresge Foundation.; Merchants -- United States -- Biography.
Description: Biography of Sebastian Spering Kresge (1867-1966), and autobiography of his son (the author), Stanley Sebastian Kresge (b.1900). The father founded the S.S. Kresge Company as a single five-and-dime store in downtown Detroit in 1899. Includes history of the company, which opened its first K-Mart in 1962, and changed its name to K-Mart Corporation in 1977. Sebastian Spering Kresge also founded the Kresge Foundation, a charitable institute. He was a direct descendant of Conrad Kresge, a Swiss immigrant to Monroe County, Pennsylvania in 1748.