Havilah Babcock Founder of Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Havilah Babcock Founder of Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Biography of Havilah Babcock

Early Life

Havilah Babcock founder of Kimberly-Clark Corporation was a famous American businessman and entrepreneur. He was born in the year of 1831 on July 23rd in New York, New York in United States of America. His father’s name was John Babcock while his mother was Laura Babcock. He started his initial education by getting admission in his local town school. After his initial education, he joined another local college for further higher studies. As the financial conditions of his family were not suitable, that was the reason he could not continue his education after higher secondary school studies in college.

Initial Career

He started his career in the age of just 20 years when he started trying to find any job. He started his first job in a factory of paper industry sector and that is why he had the basic knowledge of this field. This was his knowledge of the field which led him to be the Co Founder of Kimberly-Clark Corporation.  The other Co Founders with Havilah Babcock used his knowledge of the field and his ideas to promote business of their company and made it a leading company of this sector.

Co Founder of Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Babcock was working as a Sales Officer in paper factory in those days when three of his friends met him with an idea to start their own company of the same sector. Basically this idea was of John A. Kimberly who had already shared it 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 co founded 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 1898 on May 10th in New York in USA. He was almost 67 years of age at the time of his death.