Hanover Shoe in

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, was once one of the largest and most successful shoe companies in

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Harper Donelson Sheppard was born in

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, on October 9, 1868, the 13th of 15 children. Sheppard then entered into a financial partnership with C.N. Myers, and together they established the Hanover Shoe on December 26, 1899, with a common vision: sell the best shoes possible for one price, $2.50 a pair, and eliminate the middle-man by selling directly to the public. They opened their first store in York in June 1900; within fifteen years the Hanover Shoe Company had 61 stores from

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. - http://www.selectregistry.com/inns/qv/iid/340/cpid/382/custompage/bedandbreakfast.aspx The two men were also responsible for financing or operating such ventures as the Hanover General Hospital, the ''Evening Sun'', the public waterworks and two impounding dams, the local athletic field and the

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, today the largest standardbred nursery in the world. In 1966, the Hanover Shoe Company opened a manufacturing facility in

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& Marlinton, West Virginia, and contracted shoe orders for Bostonian and

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and made shoes for their own Hanover brand. In 1978,

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purchased the Hanover Shoe Company and moved their North American headquarters to

. The company moved all operations to

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in 1996 because of cheaper taxes. The original Hanover Shoe building on Carlisle Street in

, was converted to residential apartments in 2001, after sitting abandoned since the 1970s. The power plant is now a museum for the Hanover Fire Department. A Hanover Shoe retailer remains in Hanover, Pennsylvania, but its shoes are manufactured outside of the United States.The Hanover Shoe Company - History
Accessed 29 January 2012.

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in Chicago supplies leather shells for footwear to Hanover Shoe.

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Hanover Shoe Company - a website dedicated to the Hanover Shoe
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