H.& S. Pogue Company

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The H. & S. Pogue Company was a Cincinnati based department store founded by two brothers, Henry and Samuel Pogue. They first came from Ireland to Cincinnati and worked in their uncle’s dry goods store. They later were able to buy him out and H. & S. Pogue Dry Goods Company was established in 1863.

Pogue's was purchased by Associated Dry Goods Corp. in 1962. ADG merged Pogue's with their Indianapolis based L.S. Ayres stores in 1983. Three years later, in October 1986, ADG itself was acquired in a US$2.2 billion merger with May Department Stores. The five former Pogue's locations were sold to Hess's and JCPenney in 1987 and 1988 and the downtown store shuttered.

[edit] Former locations

Downtown Cincinnati (building constructed 1915, closed 1988, demolished for Tower Place Mall)
Tri-County Mall, Cincinnati, Ohio (opened 1960, renamed L.S. Ayres 1983, sold to JCPenney 1988, closed 2005, former location being redeveloped)
Northgate Mall, Cincinnati, Ohio (opened 1972, renamed L.S. Ayres 1983, sold to JCPenney 1988)
Kenwood Towne Centre (originally Kenwood Plaza), Kenwood, Ohio (opened 1956, renamed L.S. Ayres 1983, sold to JCPenney 1988, sold to Parisian 1993, closed 2007, will be demolished for new Nordstrom)
Florence Mall, Florence, Kentucky (opened 1976, renamed L.S. Ayres 1983, sold to Hess's 1987, closed became Lazarus Home Store 1994, now Macy's Home)