Born in the small metropolis
of David City, Nebraska on August 29, 1891.
His was the fifth son to a minister,
who ventured from his house at the age of eight
to aid the family's meager means by any manner possible,
an outgoing child full of passion,
he found provision through the tales of sales.
Never content, always extending his visions
in the year of 1905 he started a business with his brothers,
spending $150.00 on postcards
to sell to the salesmen doing trade in books at the store where he worked.
Not willing to stay another's servant
by the year 1908, he moved Norfolk, Nebraska
and founded the Norfolk Post Card Company.
By 1910 the call of his inventive entrepreneurial spirit
forced him to leave high school and venture to Kansas City Missouri,
peddling his post cards and his smiles,
until in 1913 he started his own shop, offering post cards and greet cards.
A fire destroyed his enterprise, but not his will in 1915,
for a year later he bought and engraving business
to begin making his own cards, under the brandmark of Hallmark.
Flourishing throughout the 1920's,
expanding during the Great Depression,
his venture to offer the scripts of love and hope spread ever since.
Retiring in 1966, to spend his days renovating downtown Kansas City,
leaving behind the Crown Center as mark of those endeavors.
Passing on October 29, 1982, Joyce Clyde Hall, JC to his friends,
gave messages of the heart
a place and form in history through his Hallmark cards.
Author notes
Image and information from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Hall
A contest entry
- Write Me a Chronology by chordphrute.
450 points, ended September 3, 2008, 6 entries
Silver trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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A wonderful straight-down-the-line bio! Congratulations on the silver.
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wow this is a brilliant story I make hand made cards myself it great how poeple bounce back from the depths of unfortunate cicumstances its having willpower to keep giong and this man had a great aboundance of willpower good luck in the contest my friend
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Lovely bit of history for the enity that has shared "Thinking of You" millions of times and in just as many ways, with picture and poetry shining the light in loved ones hearts.
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This man has certainly influenced my life! I love to give and receive cards. Yet I had never heard of him by name.
An excellent chronology.
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