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In God we trust

One of the most respected chains of American department stores is the J.C. Penney Company.

Its origins can be traced to a store started in 1902 by James Cash Penney, the son of a Kentucky Baptist minister, in Kemmerer, Wyoming.1 It was incorporated under its present name in 1913 and by 1929 Penney himself was worth 40 million dollars.