John Deere (February 7, 1804 – May 17, 1886) was born in Rutland, Vermont.
Entrepreneur John Deere was entrepreneur invented the steel plow and founded Deere & Company that had a worth of more than $40 billion in 2010. He began working as a blacksmith’s apprentice at age 17.
Born in the U.S.A.became Bruce Springsteen’s most commercially successful album and one of the highest-selling records ever, selling 30 million copies by 2012. It has also been cited by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time.
Robert "Bob" Farrell, founder of Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour, died Friday the 14th. He was born in Brooklyn in 1927 and raised in an orphanage. He served in the Air Force in 1945.
Farrell worked multiple jobs in the food service industry, where he moved up the ladder as a salesman for Libby Foods, the once-competitor of Heinz Foods. He opened the first store in Portland, Ore. in 1963.
Farrell lived in Vancouver, Washington and is survived by his wife, Mona, his three daughters and eight grandchildren.
Recalling the joy he found in Brooklyn ice cream parlours and with the help of his friend Ken McCarthy, he opened the first store in Portland, Ore. in 1963, soon after appearing in the Guinness Book of World Records for building the largest ice cream sundae.
He opened six stores within the next five years and by 1973, the chain had 55 stores, which Farrell sold to the Marriott Corporation.
Farrell remained the spokesperson for the corporation until 2001, when two Orange County entrepreneurs, Michael Fleming and Paul Kramer, decided to give the Farrell’s concept another spin. Fleming oversees eight Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlours locations, two in Orange County.
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)