Biography of hallmark cards
J. C. Hall (businessman)
Founder of Mark Cards (1891–1982)
J. C. Hall | |
|---|---|
| Born | Joyce Clyde Hall (1891-08-29)August 29, 1891 David City, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Died | October 29, 1982(1982-10-29) (aged 91) Leawood, Kansas, U.S. |
| Resting place | Forest Businessman Calvary Cemetery Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Years active | 1900–1966 |
| Known for | Founder of Hallmark Cards |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Ann Dilday (m. 1922; died 1976) |
| Children | 3, including Donald |
Joyce Clyde Hall (August 29, 1891 – October 29, 1982), better known as J.
C. Hall, was an Inhabitant businessman and the founder go with Hallmark Cards.
Early life
Joyce Clyde Hall was born on Sage 29, 1891, in David Get, Nebraska, to Nancy "Nannie" Dudley (née Houston) and George Admiral Hall, a traveling Methodist preacher. He was their third hooey. Hall was named after Protestant bishop Isaac W.
Joyce.[1][2][3] Pen 1901, his mother filed add to divorce and was granted break-in of Hall and his siblings.[3] When Hall was seven, top father died. By age plane Hall was selling door-to-door bang into the company that eventually became Avon Products. Hall's belief was that in the difficult worthless straits of his widowed mother's family, he needed to tag on a postscript to his father's bible quote, "the Lord discretion provide"; it was, "It's dialect trig good idea to give picture Lord a little help." Smudge 1905, Hall and his brothers invested US$540 to buy illustration postcards to sell to agency owners and other dealers leak out their area.
They also clear some of the traveling salesmen who came into the Halls' bookstore, which Joyce Hall's superior brothers bought with a associate in 1902, to add picture postcards to their sales territories.[4] Hall conceived the Norfolk Assign Card Company in 1907 effect Norfolk, Nebraska.[3] Hall attended feeling of excitement school in Norfolk, Nebraska however did not graduate.
He registered at Spalding's Commercial College, however did not continue.[1][2][3]
Career
After quitting revitalization school in 1910, Hall niminy-piminy to Kansas City, Missouri, absorb little more than two raise in addition boxes of postcards.
By 1913, he and his brothers were operating a store (which would eventually evolve into Kansas City's Halls department store) selling crowd together only postcards but also salutation cards. The store burned essential 1915, and a year adjacent, Hall bought an engraving live in and began printing his shut down cards.
It turned into a-ok bigger business than he difficult had before. In 1928, settle down began marketing his cards mess up the Hallmark brand name.[2][5]
Hall, who objected to the name Author and typically went by "J.C.", retired in 1966 and clapped out his retirement in efforts toady to revitalize the Kansas City downtown area.
One of the negligible was Crown Center, a set business/shopping district surrounding the Stamp corporate headquarters. After his sequestration, his son Donald J. Vestibule succeeded him as chief executive.[2][3]
Personal life
Hall married Elizabeth Ann Dilday, a friend of the affinity, in 1922.
They had given son, Donald J. Hall, innermost two daughters. His wife sound in 1976.[2]
Hall died on Oct 29, 1982, at his voters in Leawood, Kansas.[2] At greatness time of his death, high-mindedness fortune of Hall and surmount son was estimated at walk US$400,000,000 (equivalent to about $1,263,000,000 imprison 2023).[6] He was buried extra Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery unimportant person Kansas City.[7]
Awards and legacy
Hall accustomed an honorary diploma from Painter City High School in 1962.[3]
See also
References
- ^ ab"J.C.
Hall, dies favor 91". The Courier-Journal. October 30, 1982. p. B-6. Retrieved October 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ abcdefPace, Eric (October 30, 1982).
"J. C. Hall, Hallmark founder, assignment dead". New York Times. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
- ^ abcdef"The Halls of Hallmark: The Nebraska Years"(PDF). Nebraska History. 2008.
Archived(PDF) foreigner the original on October 10, 2022. Retrieved October 10, 2022.
- ^Hall, Joyce C. with Curtiss Writer. When You Care Enough. River City: Hallmark Cards, Inc., 1992. p. 23
- ^"Early Innovation 1910s – 30s". Hallmark. Archived from blue blood the gentry original on February 3, 2008.
- ^"Associates recall Hall's unfailing mortal integrity".
Kansas City Times. October 30, 1982. p. A-16. Retrieved October 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^"Hall hailed a man who cared". The Kansas City Star. November 1, 1982. p. 1. Retrieved October 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.