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Samuel Curtis Johnson (1833 Elyria, Ohio – 1919) created S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc of Racine, Wisconsin.
In 1882 he moved to Racine where he became a parquet flooring salesman for the Racine Hardware Manufacturing Co. In 1886 he purchased the flooring business from the company and renamed it Johnson's Prepared Paste Wax Company. A few years later he established his own factory for manufacturing floor waxes and wood finishes. When his son, Herbert Fisk Johnson became a partner in 1906, the firm was renamed S. C. Johnson & Son.[1] SC Johnson remains privately held by the Johnson family today,and operates in more than 70 countries, employs 12,000 people, and provides products in more than 110 countries around the world.[2]
The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York is named in his honor.
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