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Melville Reuben Bissell (September 25, 1843 – March 15, 1889) was an American entrepreneur who invented the modern carpet sweeper. [1] The Bissell corporation is named after him. Life and career
Anna Bissell was born on 2nd December 1846 in River John, Nova Scotia, to William and Eleanor Sutherland. They moved to Wisconsin when Anna was a child. [6] Bissell's husband was Melville Reuben Bissell. They had five children. In 1889, Bissell's husband died from pneumonia. On November 8, 1934, Bissell died in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Lyford House, by Richardson Bay, Tiburon, California is constructed. Heinz Tomato Ketchup introduced. Adolphus Busch's brewery, Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis, Missouri, first markets Budweiser, a pale lager, as a nationally sold beer. Melville Reuben Bissell files a patent for an improved carpet sweeper. [6]
Bissell Inc., also known as Bissell Homecare, is an American privately owned vacuum cleaner and floor care product manufacturing corporation headquartered in Walker, Michigan in Greater Grand Rapids. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The company is the number one manufacturer of floor care products in North America in terms of sales, with 20% marketshare.
March 15 – Melville Reuben Bissell, entrepreneur, inventor of the Carpet sweeper (born 1843) April 30 – William Henry Barnum, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1876 to 1879 (born 1818) May 9 – William S. Harney, general (born 1800) June 26 Simon Cameron, journalist, editor and 26th United States Secretary of War from 1861 to 1862 (born 1799)
June 29 – Charles Warren Stone, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (died 1912) August 1 – Robert Todd Lincoln, statesman and businessman, son of Abraham Lincoln (died 1926) August 19 – C. I. Scofield, theologian (died 1921) September 25 – Melville Reuben Bissell, entrepreneur, inventor of the Carpet sweeper ...
Back in 2002, Valerie Merians and Dennis Johnson were frustrated at what they felt was the Bush administration’s rush into the war in Iraq, and to vent some of that frustration, they decided to ...
Anna Haight was born Anna Bissell on 2 October 1834 in St. Louis to Captain Lewis Bissell and his wife, the former Mary Woodbridge. Captain Bissell built the house in which Anna grew up; Lewis Bissell House (1820), now a restaurant and banquet facility, is considered to be the oldest surviving house in St. Louis.