John A. Kimberly Founder of Kimberly-Clark Corporation
John A. Kimberly Founder of Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Biography of John A. Kimberly

Early Life

John A. Kimberly founder of Kimberly-Clark Corporation was a famous American businessman and entrepreneur. He was born in the year of 1838 on February 15th in Troy, New York in United States of America. His father was not from any high class that is why john A. Kimberly faced poverty from very young age. He was taught initially by his father at his home. After that, he was admitted in his town school for further formal education. After his initial education, he joined Laura College of science for his further studies from where he completed his formal education of higher secondary school.  He was enrolled in University of New York in 1858 for further studies.

Interest in Business

He was studying in University of New York those days, but he was not as much interested in studies. As already mentioned, he was from a poor family that was the reason; he started to work and to earn his livelihood from a very young age. He started a job at city mall as a sales representative to meet up his expenditures.

Co Founder of Kimberly-Clark Corporation

As his job was on the go, he thought that he has the basic idea of sales work now and he should start his own business. That was the reason which led him to be the co founder of Kimberly-Clark Corporation. He shared his idea with one of his best friends Charles B. Clark, who supported him in his idea and offered him his help. Actual problem they were facing, that was shortage of funds and investments. They involved their other two friends named as Havilah Babcock and Frank C. Shattuck. After all this process of ideas sharing, Kimberly-Clark Corporation was the name suggested by all of them.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Kimberly-Clark Corporation was cofounded by John A. Kimberly and three of his friends named as Havilah Babcock, Franck c. Shattuck and Charles B. Clark. It was founded in the year of 1872 as a personal care company. It is generally a kind of company which produces the paper based consumer products. The products of this company include facial tissue, Kotex feminine, hygiene products, Scott toilet papers and Andrex. Presently this company has more than 58,000 employees and its main industry is about manufacturing and production of personal and household goods.  The head quarter of the company is in Irving, Texas in United States of America. The initial investment of the company was just 30,000 USD which were collected equally by all partners but presently its global revenues are more than 21.1 Billion United States dollars. The company was listed as number one place to work list in the year of 1998.

Death

He died in the year of 1928 on January 21st in Redlands, California in USA. He was almost 90 years of age at the time of his death.