Samuel Curtis Johnson Founder of S. C. Johnson
Samuel Curtis Johnson Founder of S. C. Johnson

Biography of Samuel Curtis Johnson

Early Life

Samuel Curtis Johnson founder of S. C. Johnson was a famous businessman and entrepreneur of United States of America. He bore in the year of 1833 on December 24th in Elyria, Ohio in United States. He started his early education in his local town school and later on for formal education; he joined his city college. Due to some financial problems and some other issues, he was unable to complete his education and he had to start a job in a young age.

Initial Career

After his education failure, he was thinking of starting his own career. His career was started in a quite young age as he started his first job as a newspaper hawker on railway station of Elyria. After that, he worked in many jobs at different positions, started many businesses but all in vain. His non oriented nature did not let him to sit with ease and he started seriously now to start any new business. This though led him to be the founder of S. C. Johnson.

Founder of S. C. Johnson

Samuel Curtis Johnson Senior is widely known and credited as founder of S. C. Johnson. After his initial career, he moved to Racine in the year of 1882 and there he started working as parquet flooring salesman. He was working in Racine Hardware Manufacturing Corporation. As after four years of work over there, he realized that business policy of company owners is not going in an extra mile for company that is why, he thought to purchase company from them. He renamed the company as S. C. Johnson prepared paste Wax Company.

S. C. Johnson

S. C. Johnson was founded by Samuel Curtin Johnson in the year of 1886. From the year of 1882, he was working in Racing Hardware Manufacturing Corporation. After some time of working over there, he realized the basic policy of is business and the thing that company is not doing its best.  That is why, he purchased the company and after that, he established his own industry which he named as S. C. Johnson and Son. Generally S. C. Johnson is a housing and household goods manufacturing Sector Company with its branches in more than 15 countries all over the world including Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, India, Nigeria, Spain, United Kingdom and Mexico. Presently this company has the 12, 893 employees working with it and its head quarter is in Racine, Wisconsin in United States of America. The employee growth of company is about 0% with global revenue of 9 billion United States dollars. It was ranked firstly in the best place to work list in the year of 1984.

Death

He died in the year of 1919 just after 35 years of his founding company. He was 86 years of age at the time of his death.