Alvah Curtis Roebuck was born on 1864-01-09.
maybe natural causes
Alvah Curtis Roebuck died on 1948-06-18.
John Roebuck died in 1794.
Alvah Curtis Roebuck was in fact African American.
No , Alvah Roebuck only had 1 daughter.
Samuel and Mary Jane Wolf Roebuck http://www.nndb.com/people/539/000173020/
Sears, Roebuck and Co. was founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1893. They initially started as a mail-order catalog company before expanding into retail stores.
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Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck decided to start a company together--hence the name of the store and company.
watches
No, not that anyone can prove. There have been some online sites that made the claim, but the Sears archives do not agree. They say that Alvah Curtis Roebuck came from Indiana and his ancestry was British. Also, all census documents I have seen say that he was white.
Richard Sears
Alvah Meyer died in 1939.
Alvah Sabin died in 1885.
Alvah Hunt died in 1858.