| LC control no. | n 96054403 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Vernon, Lillian, 1927-2015 |
| Variant(s) | Katz, Lillian Vernon, 1927-2015 Katz, Lillian M., 1927-2015 Menasche, Lilli, 1927-2015 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Mount Vernon (Westchester County, N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1927-03-18 |
| Death date | 2015-12-14 |
| Place of birth | Leipzig (Germany) |
| Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Mail-order business |
| Affiliation | Lillian Vernon Corporation |
| Profession or occupation | Businesspeople |
| Found in | An eye for winners, 1996: CIP t.p. (Lillian Vernon) data sheet (b. 03-18-27) The entrepreneurs, an American adventure. Part 5, Giving 'em what they want [VR] 1991, c1987: container (Lillian Vernon Katz, gift catalog innovator) New York Times, Aug. 18, 1985, in Lexis Nexis, Dec. 12, 2000 (Lillian M. Katz, age 58, Mount Vernon, N.Y.; founder of Lillian Vernon Corp., gift mail order business; company name is a combination of Lillian Katz and Mount Vernon) New York times WWW site, viewed Dec. 15, 2015 (in obituary published Dec. 14: Lillian Vernon; b. Lilli Menasche, Mar. 18, 1927, Leipzig; m. Sam Hochberg (div.), Robert Katz (div.); m. Paolo Martino, 1998; d. Monday [Dec. 14, 2015], Manhattan, aged 88; created a sprawling catalog business that specialized in personalized gifts and ingenious gadgets and made her an American household name; her first husband's family owned a dry goods store in Mount Vernon, N.Y.; in 1951, she started a mail-order business on her yellow Formica kitchen table and used part of the name of the town in its name; her company incorporated in 1965; by 1970 the Lillian Vernon Corporation had its first million-dollar sales year; she sold her business in 2003) |
| Associated language | eng |
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