Harvey H. Firestone, age 102 years, beloved husband of the late Dorothy for 72 years; cherished father of Ida (Stuart) Aronesti, Robert (Carolyn) Firestone and Fran (Bruce) Goldberg; proud and loving ...

In 1926, Harvey S. Firestone Sr., the millionaire founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, set his sights on an ambitious goal: to break the British and Dutch monopoly on the global rubber ...

Firestone, now a subsidiary of Bridgestone, maintains one of the world's largest rubber plantations in the west African nation of Liberia. The plantation is located in a town called Harbel, named ...

Morning Journal/Patti Schaeffer Lendy Firestone Brown (left) and Mayor Bryan Blakeman laid a wreath at the Firestone Memorial in Columbiana Cemetery on Friday. Brown is the granddaughter of Harvey S.

Henry Ford had one thing to say to the clerk at the front counter of Columbus Buggy Works in Detroit: “I’m here to see Harvey Firestone.” It was 1895. Ford was using bicycle tires for a car. Not ...

On February 7, 1938, a man by the name of Harvey S. Firestone died of coronary thrombosis—or, a blood clot in the heart. He was the founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, which he kicked off ...

On a March morning in 1930, the opening of Orlando’s most glamorous automobile service station was so dazzling that the Sentinel devoted a whole page to it. The Orlando branch of Harvey Firestone’s ...