A portrait of the Penney family taken in Hamilton, Missouri, around 1888. From left to right: Mary Frances Paxton Penney holding Herbert, Mittie, thirteen-year-old James (J. C. Penney), Elie, James Cash Penney Sr., and Pearl.
A portrait of the Penney family taken in Hamilton, Missouri, around 1888. From left to right: Mary Frances Paxton Penney holding Herbert, Mittie, thirteen-year-old James (J. C. Penney), Elie, James Cash Penney Sr., and Pearl
[Courtesy of the J. C. Penney Archives]

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