What store was founded in 1861 in Philadelphia and had Keith Chapman as its principal organist?
Wanamaker's John Wanamaker, the founder of the store that bears his name, was unable to join the U.S. Army during the American Civil War because of a persistent cough. Having been rejected from war duty, he ventured into business with his brother-in-law, Nathan Brown. In 1861, they founded a men's clothing store in Philadelphia called Oak Hall. Wanamaker carried on the business alone after Brown's death in 1868. In 1876, Wanamaker purchased the abandoned Pennsylvania Railroad station for use as a new, larger retail location. The concept was to renovate the terminal into a "Grand Depot" similar to London's Royal Exchange or Paris's Les Halles—two central markets, and forerunners of the modern department store, that were well known in Europe at that time.
Hatchers Hatchers Department Store is one of the oldest department stores in the world. It was established as a drapery in 1775, as attested to by the stone work on one of its original premises, number 56 High Street, Taunton. Over the course of the next few years, the drapery business was expanded, until the business consisted of many departments, spread through several buildings in the centre of Taunton, Somerset.