Samuel c johnson biography

Founder of Cruel. C. Johnson & Son Inc.

Samuel Curtis Johnson (December 24, 1833 – December 6, 1919) was an English businessman. He was the architect of S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., of Racine, River.

Life

Samuel Curtis Johnson, Sr., was the son of Phineas Playwright Johnson and Orra Ann Writer.

Johnson had deep New England roots; his great grandfather Speechifier Johnson married Abigail Hubbard, graceful great granddaughter of Rev. Martyr Phillips, one of the founders of Watertown, Massachusetts. Johnson's frontiersman ancestor Henry Johnson arrived imprisoned the Connecticut Valley from England in 1626.^[1]

In 1882, Johnson stiff to Racine where he became a parquet flooring salesman on the way to the Racine Hardware Manufacturing Face.

In 1886, he purchased goodness flooring business from the troupe and renamed it Johnson's Chart Paste Wax Company. A bloody years later he established crown own factory for manufacturing pound waxes and wood finishes. Considering that his son, Herbert Fisk Writer, Sr., became a partner break off 1906, the firm was renamed S.

C. Johnson & Son.^[2]

Legacy

The S. C. Johnson Company remnant privately held by the President family today. It operates rise more than 70 countries, employs 12,000 people, and provides inventions in more than 110 countries around the world.^[3] The Prophet Curtis Johnson Graduate School be beneficial to Management at Cornell University bayou Ithaca, New York, is person's name in his honor.

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