The Resume

(July 31, 1867-October 18, 1966)
Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Birth name was Sebastian Spering Kresge
Founded the S.S. Kresge department store chain (1899)

Why he might be annoying:

He started as a teacher, but gave up after one term.
He gave up golf because he could not stand the cost of lost balls.
The first two of his three wives divorced him over his miserliness.
Barely more than a decade after his death, the company he founded dropped his name and rebranded itself as Kmart.

Why he might not be annoying:

He started keeping bees as a boy, working his way up from a single hive to more than thirty.
He continued beekeeping as a hobby as an adult, crediting bees with reminding him of the importance of industriousness.
He was inspired to start his own department store after meeting F.W. Woolworth while working as a traveling salesman.
He was one of the first retailers to offer employees paid vacations, pensions, and profit-sharing plans.
By the time he died, he had given 90% of his personal fortune to the charitable Kresge Foundation.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Beekeepers
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 82]
• I am Known by My Initials
• I Died in 1966 (Ranked: 99)
• IDs Ending in 00 (Ranked: 51700)
• My Name, My Company
• Profiles 51501-51750 (Ranked: 51700)
• Teachers
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 19661018)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying