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The German Feuerstein - from viur or feuer meaning "fire" and stein "stone" - became in America Firestone as the German arrivals bearing this name anglicized it.
America. Nicholas Hans Feuerstein immigrated to America from Thal in Alsace in 1753 and settled in Pennsylvania (in Paradise township, York county). Three of his sons, seeking to be patriotic, then changed their bnames to Firestone. Genealogies of the two major early Firestone families descended from Nicholas as well as from the unrelated Johann Feuerstein who came to Pennsylvania in 1750, have been completed through the 1850's.
From the Nicholas line and born in 1868 in a farm in Columbiana, Ohio built by his grandfather came Harvey Firestone. He it was who founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio in 1900. It became the leading tire maker in America, selling a quarter of all the tires on the road in the 1920's.
On Harvey's death in 1938, he was considered one of the three richest men in America. Harvey's son, Harvey Jr, then took over the running of the company. But Harvey III died in 1960 after jumping out of the window of a Havana hotel. The Firestone Company then went through troubled times and passed into other hands.
There have been other Firestones in America as the Firestone lines proliferated in the 19th century. There are branches in Virginia, Maryland and Tennessee, as well as Ohio. In 1907 Jacob Firestone and his brother arrived in Weld county, Colorado from Ohio and started a coal mine there. The town that sprung up there was named Firestone after him. In more recent times Tirzah Firestone, who was raised with her sister in an Orthodox Jewish family in St. Louis, is a Jewish rabbi and writer on the Kabbalah.
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Harvey Firestone founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio in 1900.
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The German Feuerstein - from viur or feuer meaning "fire" and stein "stone" - became in America Firestone as the German arrivals bearing this name anglicized it.
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America. Nicholas Hans Feuerstein immigrated to America from Thal in Alsace in 1753 and settled in Pennsylvania (in Paradise township, York county). Three of his sons, seeking to be patriotic, then changed their bnames to Firestone. Genealogies of the two major early Firestone families descended from Nicholas as well as from the unrelated Johann Feuerstein who came to Pennsylvania in 1750, have been completed through the 1850's.
From the Nicholas line and born in 1868 in a farm in Columbiana, Ohio built by his grandfather came Harvey Firestone. He it was who founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio in 1900. It became the leading tire maker in America, selling a quarter of all the tires on the road in the 1920's.
On Harvey's death in 1938, he was considered one of the three richest men in America. Harvey's son, Harvey Jr, then took over the running of the company. But Harvey III died in 1960 after jumping out of the window of a Havana hotel. The Firestone Company then went through troubled times and passed into other hands.
There have been other Firestones in America as the Firestone lines proliferated in the 19th century. There are branches in Virginia, Maryland and Tennessee, as well as Ohio. In 1907 Jacob Firestone and his brother arrived in Weld county, Colorado from Ohio and started a coal mine there. The town that sprung up there was named Firestone after him. In more recent times Tirzah Firestone, who was raised with her sister in an Orthodox Jewish family in St. Louis, is a Jewish rabbi and writer on the Kabbalah.
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Harvey Firestone founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio in 1900.
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- 2,000 in America (most numerous in Pennsylvania)
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