Ancestry of
Timothy Leatherman
Founder of Leatherman Tools
Who is Timothy Leatherman?
Timothy Leatherman is the founder and CEO of Leatherman Tool Group. If you like to tinker around in your garage and you own a lot of tools, then there’s a good chance that you have a Leatherman multi-tool in your toolbox.
Timothy Leatherman is a mechanical engineer who graduated from Oregon Statue University. He is said to have come up with the idea for the multi-tool while driving through Europe with his wife in a car that repeatedly broke down. The idea came after failed attempts to fix the car with his pocket knife. In 1983, he started the Leatherman Tool Group with Steve Berliner. Today, the Leatherman Tool Group is a global company with sales in over 80 countries.
Famous Kin
Timothy Leatherman has a few fellow business legends and inventors in his family tree including Walt Disney, Gilbert Noble (co-founder of Barnes and Noble), Thomas Watson, Jr. (President and CEO of I.B.M.), lockstitch sewing machine inventor Elias Howe, Morse Code inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, and air conditioning inventor Willis Carrier. He also has kinship to a few celebrities including actress Lucille Ball, television’s Bill Nye the Science Guy, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young, NBA All-Star player Kevin Love, and The Beach Boys Brian, Carl, Dennis Wilson and Mike Love. Other historical figures with family connections to Timothy Leatherman include Mormon church president Brigham Young, poet Emily Dickinson, and U.S. First Lady Lucretia Garfield.
Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Timothy Leatherman
Alice French
(aka Octave Thanet)
Novelist and Short Story Writer
8th cousin 2 times removed
via Gregory Stone
Daniel Henry Chamberlain
76th Governor of South Carolina
6th cousin 3 times removed
via William Ward
Charles Edward Merrill
Co-Founder of Merrill Lynch & Company
8th cousin 1 time removed
via John Stone
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Timothy Leatherman photo by Andreas Lakso (CC BY-SA 4.0)
