Businessman Samuel Moore Walton(1918-1992) built Wal-Mart into one of the nation's largest retailers and became the patriarch of one of the richest American families.
Samuel ‘Sam' Moore Walton was born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, March 29, 1918. He was the son of a banker and the eldest of two boys. Having grown up in the 1930s during the Great Depression, he later graduated from the University of Missouri in 1940. He married Helen Robson after graduation had four children. He served three years as an Army intelligence officer during World War II.
Walton had started in the retail business with the J. C. Penney Company in Des Moines, Iowa, making between $75 and $85 a month. He worked there for five years. After his army service, in 1945 Walton used a $20,000 loan from his father-in-law plus $5,000 of his savings to buy a Ben Franklin store in Newport, Arkansas, where he was joined by his brother. In 1950, when his landlord failed to renew his lease, Walton moved to Bentonville,......

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