En: King Camp Gillette
King Camp Gillette
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It can be reasonably claimed that the American innovator King Camp Gillette changed the world when he launched the cheap, disposable safety razor to a grateful public in 1901. Yet the founder of the world famous Gillette brand (now a business unit of Procter & Gamble), who was known for his business acumen and innovative marketing strategies, was also a Freemason.
Gillette was first a member of Adelphi Lodge in Quincy, Massachusetts and later belonged to Columbian Lodge in Boston.
Little is known of Gillette’s personal experience within the Fraternity, but his political ideas are well documented and must surely have been shared among other members.
Gillette was a “Utopian Socialist,” and envisioned a single public-owned corporation that controlled the entire world’s industry. He also imagined a giant US-wide city named Metropolis that would be powered exclusively by Niagara Falls. King Camp Gillette: dreamer; inventor; Freemason.
Links
- Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_C._Gillette
- Lodge membership listed (archive.org link 2025): https://web.archive.org/web/20250119173316/https://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/king-camp-gillette/
