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JOHN WANAMAKER

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JOHN WANAMAKER

<b>12. JOHN WANAMAKER</b>
<hr align=left size=5 width=33% color=#778899><h3 align=center>“How to get the most out of life”</h3>(1838-1922). American merchant; postmaster general (1889-1893) appointed by Benjamin Harrison. He started a clothing business in 1861 which within ten years expanded into the largest retail men’s clothing store in the US, later a department store. TLS, 1p, 12mo, Philadelphia, Sep 21, 1904. With transmittal envelope. On his personal letterhead, in response to a question of how to get the most out of life, he writes, <i>“I can only turn you back to the Word of God, who made all men and requires of them an account when they have finished with this world...It is a pity for a young person to make a mistake early in life and drift into the years and begin to sow the right seed only in middle life or old age, when they might at that moment be reaping fine harvests if they had begun in youth to put in the right seed, by trusting in God and following His direction.”</i> Boldly signed. Light scattered staining; o/w VG.

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