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...honestly believe that Mr. Shedd is the best merchant in America...
...late Marshall Field, always autocratic, unyielding, glared at the Federal Commission before whom he was speaking, as if he expected a contradiction. None came. Too much had been spoken, even then, about this John Shedd, about his economy, his executive ability, his uncanny foresight, for the listeners to dispute anything that Mr. Field cared...
Born in New Hampshire, that cradle of millionaires, politicians and farmhands, John Shedd worked on his father's nubbly acres until he was 17, then got a job at $1.50 a week in a general store at Bellows Falls, Vt. It was the sort of store that has been made familiar to everybody as a stage-set for dramas of New England-a long room with a stove in it, a few boxes of sweet crackers, a teamster or two, a cat in a chair, a dingy glass case filled with painted chocolates and striped stick candy. A bell...
...John Shedd yielded. Later that afternoon the suspicious storekeeper, coming up from the cider barrel in the cellar, discharged him. He went to another town, got another job. Five years later he found himself in Chicago asking work from Marshall Field of Field, Leiter...
...after the 1871 Chicago fire that John Shedd asked Marshall Field for a job. "I can do anything," he said. He was a tall, angular, big-eared, eager fellow of 22. Later in life he said: "Think well of yourself. Self-respect never injures your standing with your employer. Without it you are likely to fall into timorous habits." And he must have been thinking of the way he asked Marshall Field for work. He was hired as stock boy for $10 a week. He saved half his wages regularly...