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Title
William
Cooper
Procter
Memorial
Subject
Arts and Entertainment
Business and Labor
Procter & Gamble Company
Memorials
Sculpture
Place
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description
This
8
by
10-inch
(20.32
by
25.40
cm)
image
depicts
the
William
Cooper
Procter
Memorial
.
Dedicated
in
June
7
,
1939
,
it
memorializes
Procter's
contributions
to
Procter
&
Gamble
Company
, the
most
significant
of
which
was the
creation
of the
profit-sharing
program
in
1887
. The
voluntary
program
gave
employees
a
stake
in the
company
.
Procter
(1862-1934)
was the
grandson
of the
company's
founder
. This
sculpture
was
created
by
Ernest
Bruce
Hasell
.
William
Procter
(1801-1884)
and
James
Gamble
(1803-1891)
started
the
Procter
&
Gamble
Company
in
1837
.
Procter
was a
native
of
England
who
worked
as a
candle
maker
.
Gamble
, a
soap
maker
,
originally
came
from
Ireland
. The
two
men
were
brothers-in-law
,
having
married
sisters
Olivia
and
Elizabeth
Norris
. Their
father-in-law
,
Alexander
Norris
,
persuaded
them to
go
into
business
together
selling
soap
and
candles
.
During
the
Civil
War
,
Procter
&
Gamble
was
awarded
several
contracts
to
supply
the
Union
Army
with
soap
and
candles
. The
candle
business
was
discontinued
in the
1920s
. In
1879
,
P
&
G
began
making
their
signature
product
,
Ivory
soap
. By
1890
Procter
&
Gamble
was a
multi-million
dollar
corporation
.
Creator
Hasell, Ernest Bruce
Date of Original
1939
Source
Historical object(s) or artifact(s)
Submitting Institution
Procter & Gamble Company Corporate Archives
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om1945_1810782_001.tif
Image Height
2158
Image Width
2797
File Size
1632.262 KB
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