Julius Schmid (manufacturer)
Julius Schmidt (March 17, 1865 – 1955), later Julius Schmid, was the creator of the Sheik condom and the Ramses condom.[1]
Biography
He was born in Schorndorf, Germany on March 17, 1865. He emigrated to New York City at the age of 17, in 1882.[2] He founded Schmid Laboratories in Little Falls, New Jersey in 1883.[3]
References
- ^ Brendan I. Koerner (September 29, 2006). "The Other Trojan War - What's the best-selling condom in America?". Slate magazine. Retrieved 2007-07-21.
Jules Schmid, a onetime sausage-maker who'd started making lamb-gut condoms in the 1880s; by the time Trojan debuted, he was manufacturing rubber condoms under the Ramses and Sheik brand names. Schmid's packages often featured romantic Egyptian or Arab images. ...
- ^ "Julius Schmid". PBS. Retrieved 2011-09-25.
Born into poverty in Schorndorf, Germany, in 1865, the half-paralyzed Jewish immigrant arrived in New York at the age of 17 to make his fortune. ...
- ^ "Carl J. Schmid, Former Chief Of Drug Maker, Is Dead at 85". New York Times. June 10, 1983. Retrieved 2011-09-25.
He became president of the company in 1939 upon the death of his father, Julius, who founded the concern in 1883 in Little Falls, N.J.
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