Harvey Firestone

AmericanDecember 20, 1868 – February 7, 1938Business & Entrepreneurship

Harvey Firestone founded Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in 1900 and became one of the leading industrialists of the early automobile era, supplying tires to Henry Ford and other automakers. His memoir Men and Rubber is a classic account of industrial-age entrepreneurship and the personal relationships that shaped American business.