question: Where was the first store that the grandfather of Elinor S. Gimbel's husband located?
answer: Vincennes, Indiana
context: Title: Fred Gottschalk Grocery Store
  Passage: The Fred Gottschalk Grocery Store is a historic grocery store building located at 301 West Edwards Street in Springfield, Illinois.  Fred Gottschalk opened his first store at the site in 1887; he built the present building in 1898.  The brick building has a Commercial style design with a cast iron storefront and a corbelled cornice.  The store, one of several groceries in the area, served many of Springfield's prominent politicians and their families; it also allowed its customers to purchase goods by telephone.  Gottschalk and his son Arthur ran the store until 1971; the building is now one of the few surviving neighborhood groceries in Springfield.
  Title: Anders Rudolph Rude
  Passage: Anders Rudolph Rude (October 25, 1812 in Copenhagen – May 21, 1883 in Georgetown, Texas) was a Danish-American Lutheran minister and theologist.  Having graduated from the University of Copenhagen he emigrated to the United States of America in 1836, arriving in Boston.  He settled in Virginia and graduated again from the Gettysburg seminary and was ordained as a minister in Woodstock, Virginia.  He married Anne Steenbergen "née" Caperton, and took over the administration of the plantation of her late husband located at Locusts Grove in Shenandoah County, Virginia.  There he built a church on the hill which was later to take his name, Rude's Hill.  During the American Civil War he lost everything as the plantation came to be used as the headquarters for General Stonewall Jackson in 1862.  He lost his wife and daughter as the Confederate and Union forces struggled over the Shenandoah Valley from 1862 to 1864.
  Title: Media Play
  Passage: Media Play was a chain of retail stores founded in 1992 by Musicland that sold movies on video, DVDs, music, electronics, video games, books, and games in the United States.  Each store essentially contained a book store, a movie store, a music store, and a video game store under one roof.  At their height, they operated 72 stores in 19 states with 2,000 employees.  The first store opened in Rockford, Illinois, in 1992.  Hundreds of stores were slated to be opened, but only 89 ever were.
  Title: Sutherland's Drug Store
  Passage: Sutherland's Drug Store is a small family-owned drug store in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.  The company was established in Fort McMurray, Alberta by Angus Sutherland in 1918 and expanded into the Yellowknife gold fields during the rush in 1938.  Its first store was located in Old Town Yellowknife and was managed by Walter Hill and Keith Miller.  The store closed during the war but reopened and expanded following the post-war gold boom.  In 1948, the Old Town store was physically moved to the new downtown development and a second store was built in Old Town.  Two stores were run by the chain into the 1950s.  In 1951, Doug and Wilma Finlayson and A.L. Blackberg bought the Sutherland chain following the death of Angus Sutherland.  In 1954, the Old Town store closed; in 1956, the current downtown store was built and the original store brought up from Old Town years previous was rented to commercial tenants.  Sutherland's Drug Store continues to operate today in its expanded storefront and successfully competes with larger department stores in Yellowknife.
  Title: Gimbels
  Passage: Gimbel Brothers (Gimbels) was an American department store corporation from 1887 until 1987.  Adam Gimbel opened the first store in Vincennes, Indiana that would later lead to his son Bernard opening the first store in the chain of Gimbels Department Stores in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.The company is known for creating the Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade, the oldest parade in the country.  Gimbels was also once the largest department store chain in the country.  By the time it closed in 1987, Gimbels had 35 stores in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Connecticut.
  Title: Kaufman-Straus
  Passage: Kaufman-Straus was a local department store that operated in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1879 to 1969.  In 1879, local retail clerk Henry Kaufman opened the first store on Jefferson between 7th and 8th.  Four years later, Benjamin Straus entered into partnership with Kaufman.  In 1887, the Kaufman-Straus store moved to South 4th Street in space leased from the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky.  The new flagship store opened in 1903, at 533-49 South 4th Street, designed by local architect Mason Maury.  In 1924, Kaufman-Straus was acquired by City Stores Company and the following year the flagship store underwent extensive renovations.  City Stores rebranded the company as Kaufman's in 1960.  It operated two stores in suburban Louisville at The Mall and Dixie Manor.  In 1969, Kaufman's was acquired by L. S. Ayres, and the downtown Louisville store was subsequently closed in 1971.  The flagship store was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
  Title: Dunn Bros
  Passage: Dunn Brothers Coffee is a franchise company of coffeehouses founded in St. Paul, Minnesota, in December 1987 by brothers Ed and Dan Dunn.  The first store was opened on Grand Avenue in St. Paul, after the brothers had driven an old Dodge van loaded with their belongings from Portland, Oregon, to Minnesota in search of a good, underserved location for a coffee business.  They found a refurbished 1950s Probat roaster in Cincinnati, Ohio, and used it to set up that first store.  The second location opened in Uptown Minneapolis in 1991 (and was temporarily the only location while the Grand Avenue store was rebuilt following a 1991 fire).
  Title: Congress of American Women
  Passage: The Congress of American Women was an American women's rights organization.  It was founded in New York on March 8 (International Women's Day) 1946 following a 1945 feminist conference in Paris.  Its primary organizer was Elinor S. Gimbel (wife of Louis S. Gimbel, Jr., grandson of Adam Gimbel of Gimbels department store).  It was affiliated with the Soviet sponsored organization Women's International Democratic Federation.  In 1948 the organization was accused of being a communist front organization by the House Un-American Activities Committee and was forced to register as a "subversive" organization.  The organization was finally dissolved in 1950.  Among its members were anthropologist Gene Weltfish, aviator Jacqueline Cochran, educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and author and artist Muriel Draper.
  Title: Discount Drug Mart
  Passage: Discount Drug Mart, Inc., is an Ohio-based drug store chain that opened its first store in Elyria, Ohio in 1969.  It now operates 71 stores in more than 20 of Ohio’s 88 counties, with its corporate headquarters and warehouse based in Medina, Ohio.  The Hilliard location recently closed due to lack of profit.  This is the first store out of the chain to close.  The store prides itself on its one-stop shopping and the variety of products it provides, and it says it all in their slogan 'We Save You the Runaround'.  Today, Discount Drug Mart has a revenue of over $550 million and continues to expand, catering to smaller cities that do not have the population to attract a larger retailer.
  Title: Welty's General Store
  Passage: Welty's General Store was first established in a log cabin just outside the town of Dubois, Wyoming in 1889 by Frank A. Welty.  The store was placed next to the homestead cabin of his father, Dr. Francis Welty.  In 1897 George Hays and Huey Yeomans built a general store in Dubois.  Welty purchased the store in 1898 and moved his operation into town, dismantling the first store and appending it to the new store.  Both buildings were of log construction with an earth roof.
citations: Gimbels Congress of American Women