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The main headquarters of the university system is the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library building, named after tire magnate Harvey Firestone. Additionally, Princeton is part of the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP) along with Columbia Libraries, Harvard Library and New York Public Library.
Harvey S. Firestone was an American businessman known for founding the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. Born in Ohio, he was early to recognize the potential for automobile tires and became a key figure in the burgeoning industry. After high school, Firestone first worked at the Columbus Buggy...
Quotations by Harvey S. Firestone, American Businessman, Born December 20, 1868. Share with your friends. "The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."
Harvey S. Firestone Sr. Founder of Firestone Tire & Rubber, Firestone built a 220-square mile rubber plantation in Liberia. Charles Taylor. Educated in the U.S., Taylor plunged Liberia into civil war.
Industrialist, Inventor. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of pneumatic car and truck tires and as founder of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. He was born in the small town of Columbiana, Ohio, he desired to develop and mass-produce a tire to reduce the jar and jolt of the steel-shod...
HAVANA, Cuba, May 5 (AP) --Harvey S. Firestone III, 32. of the wealthy tire manufacturing family, plunged to his death Thursday night from the 20th floor of the Havana Hilton hotel. Cuban officials ruled his death a suicide. A spastic, Firestone had been crippled from birth and was confined to a wheelchair.
Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs made yearly camping trips between 1916 and 1924. They called themselves the Vagabonds. In 1920 they traveled to New York's Catskill Mountains. This was the first outing to include wives. The trips became decidedly more formal and less adventurous when wives came along.
