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John Moses Brunswick (1819 in Bremgarten, Switzerland – 25 July 1886) was the founder of the J.M. Brunswick Manufacturing Company, one of the enterprises that merged to form today's
Hall of Fame Inductees 1985–1991
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John Moses Brunswick (1819 in Bremgarten, Switzerland – 25 July 1886) was the founder of the J.M. Brunswick Manufacturing Company, one of the enterprises that merged to form today's Brunswick Corporation
Brunswick Corporation, formerly known as the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, is an American corporation that has been developing, manufacturing and marketing a wide variety of products since 1845. Today, Brunswick has more than 13,000 employ ...
.
Life
Brunswick was a Jewish immigrant from Bremgarten, Switzerland. He came to theUnited States
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in 1834 and initially worked as an errand boy for a German butcher in New York City
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. He then moved to Philadelphia
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to work as an apprentice
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to a carriage-maker, and later to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he married before moving to Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wi ...
, where he worked for two years as a steward on an old river steamer.
In 1845 he founded the J.M. Brunswick Manufacturing Company in Cincinnati. Originally Brunswick intended for his company to be in the business of making carriages, but soon after opening his machine shop he became fascinated with billiards and decided that making billiard tables would be more lucrative.
Honours
In 1990 he became a member of theBilliard Congress of America Hall of Fame This is the list of people inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's hall of fame to honour outstanding people who, through their competitive skills and dedication, have enriched the sport and industry. Two categories have been established in ...
, one of the first non-Americans to receive the honor./ref>
See also
*Moses Bensinger
Moses Bensinger (August 17, 1839 – October 14, 1904) was an American merchant and manufacturer. He was president of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company from 1890 until his death in 1904. He was the instigator and organizer of the conglomera ...
, son-in-law and business partner
References
1819 births 1886 deaths Businesspeople from Cincinnati People from Bremgarten District American people of Swiss-Jewish descent Cue sports executives 19th-century American businesspeople {{Switzerland-business-bio-stub