William Lowell, Sr.

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William Lowell, Sr.
Ernest Lowell; William Lowell, Sr.; and William Lowell, Jr.
Born	1863 Hoboken, New Jersey
Died	June 24, 1954 East Orange, New Jersey
Occupation	Dentist
Children	William Lowell, Jr., Ernest Lowell, Elisabeth Lowell, Isabel Lowell Niebling (1892-1981), and Carol Lowell Favre (1903-1987)

William Lowell, Sr. (1863 – June 24, 1954) was a dentist, and an inventor of a wooden golf tee.

William Lowell was born in Hoboken, New Jersey and lived in Maplewood, New Jersey and had a son, William Lowell, Jr. (1897-1976). ^[1] He first made 5,000 tees, that were stained green, but he soon changed to red, to make them more distinctive and named them "Reddy Tees". In 1922 Walter Hagen and Joe Kirkwood used his tees during their exhibitions. The Reddy Tee was patented on May 13, 1925, but in 1922 he signed a deal with the A.G. Spalding Company, for 24 dozen. By 1925 he was selling $100,000 worth of tees and they were being made of celluloid. By 1926 copycat versions were on the market, and he spent much of his time and money fighting patent infringement. He died in East Orange, New Jersey in 1954 at the age of 91. ^{[2] [1]}

Contents 1 William Lowell, Jr. 2 Patents 3 See also 4 References

[edit] William Lowell, Jr.

William Lowell, Jr. (December 19, 1897 – 1976) was married to Katherine Macpherson. He took over his father's company. The company was sold to Red Devil Tool in 1933. He then moved to the Union Bag Company where he worked on developing the six pack carton. He retired in 1961 and had been living in Fanwood, New Jersey and died in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1976. ^[1]

[edit] Patents

• U.S. Patent 1,670,627  golf tee filed December 7, 1925
• U.S. Patent 1,650,141  golf tee filed August 26, 1925
• U.S. Patent 1,569,765  gold putter filed November 13, 1925

[edit] See also

• George Franklin Grant

[edit] References