Samuel Henry Kress
Businessman, philanthropist
Died when: 92 years 61 days (1105 months)Star Sign: Leo
Samuel Henry Kress (July 23, 1863 – September 22, 1955) was a businessman, philanthropist, and founder of the S.H.Kress & Co. five and ten cent store chain.
With his fortune, Kress amassed one of the most significant collections of Italian Renaissance and European artwork assembled in the 20th century.
In the 1950s and 1960s, a foundation established by Kress would donate 776 works of art from the Kress collection to 18 regional art museums in the United States.
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