1942

The Morton Salt company began in Chicago, Illinois, in 1848 as a small sales
agency, E. I. Wheeler, started by the Onondaga salt companies. It was later
named after the company’s new owner, Joy Morton (below). 

Joy Morton
(September 27, 1855 – May 9, 1934)

 Milk Ad with a young Ron Howard from a 1967 magazine.

1951

Barbara Eden (born Barbara Jean Morehead in Tucson, Arizona)

Eden starred as Jeanie on the NBC sitcom I Dream of Jeanie from 1965 to
1970. She began singing with local bands at age 14 for $10 a night in local
night clubs and studied singing at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music
and trained as an actress with the Elizabeth Holloway School of Theatre. 

Barbara Eden made her big screen debut as an unaccredited extra in the
1956 film Back from Eternity and was first seen on TV in a 1956 episode
of the CBS series West Point.

1964

  1961

The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company was founded by Harvey Samuel
Firestone to supply pneumatic tires for wagons, buggies, and other forms
of wheeled transportation common in the era. Firestone soon saw the huge
potential for marketing tires for automobiles.

Harvey Samuel Firestone (December 20, 1868 – February 7, 1938)

1913