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references to the bluegrass and country label Skaggs Family Records

The Skaggs Family, starting from a small frontier town in southern Idaho, came to have an important impact on merchandising across much of the United States. During most of the 20th century, the Skaggs name was prominent on hundreds of stores throughout the West and Midwest. The origins of a wide range of these grocery and drug store enterprises can be traced to this one Skaggs family. The father in the family was a Baptist minister and had moved west for a better climate. He had a large family; to supplement his income he opened a grocery store. He and six of his sons, with varying degrees of collaboration, introduced in the early 20th century two important changes in merchandising: the low margin, cash and carry approach to business, and rapidly growing a multitude of common outlets, now called chain stores. Their entrepreneurial interests became a major retailing force resulting in large, retail chains that carried not only the Skaggs name itself, but names like Safeway, Osco, PayLess, Albertsons, Longs Drug Stores, Katz and others.

Circa 1887 Samuel M. Skaggs, with his wife Nancy (E. Long) and two of his brothers and their families, moved from Tennessee to Missouri. [2,8] There Sam tried farming, managed a store and post office in Cato, Missouri. Between 1888 and 1900 he entered the Baptist Ministry and by 1900 settled in Newton County, Missouri. At the time of their move from Tennessee, Sam and Nancy had five children; in Missouri they had 10 more. Of the first 11 children, 9 were alive in 1900. efn| name=orig2 | 1 = Because of the Skaggs brothers' many different commercial interests and their propensity to buy and sell those interests, the following chronology presents a difficult to unravel entanglement. As such, it may not be totally correct, but is close. One confusing example is the various “pay less” names and stores and the various divestitures and acquisitions in the 1980s and 1990s. What is clear is that it is difficult to shop at a grocery or drug store in much of the country that doesn't have a Skaggs heritage in its history. An account of the Skaggs family back to the Revolutionary War, as well as the move of some of it west, can be found in “The Skaggs Saga” Another, but not independent, account by R. Skaggs Some of the grocery store images were obtained from David Gwynn This site draws from the City of Oakland’s Historic Resources Inventory dated April 30, 1983. The groceteria web site Other notable gifts from the ALSAM Foundation include $100 million for the creation of The Skaggs Center for Chemical Biology at The Scripps Research Institute—one of the largest gifts ever made to medical research. Skaggs Community Health Center in Branson, Missouri (now Cox Health Branson) was named after M. B. and Estella Skaggs. M. B. was a Missouri native who owned a home and game preserve in eastern Taney County.