“In 1895, when I, King Camp Gillette, was 40, I first thought of the safety razor.” So, a decade ago, wrote the father of a great company, a great industry. The proud ring in his words was justified.

In the early 1920s, King Camp Gillette, who invented the self-named safety razor with disposable blades, had grand visions of building in the Palm Springs desert at the foot of the towering San ...

King Camp Gillette was born on January 5, 1855, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, from early-Connecticut stock. The family moved shortly to Chicago, where King attended public schools. The elder Gillette, a ...