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Stetson hats are now being manufactured in Garland, Texas, by Hatco, Inc., who also produce Resistol and Charlie 1 Horse hats. [2] Stetson resumed manufacturing in the 1980s, but the company went bankrupt in 1986. [3] The factory equipment and the license to manufacture Stetson hats was purchased by Hat Brands, a company owned by Irving Joel.
John Batterson Stetson (May 5, 1830 – February 18, 1906) was an American hat maker who invented the cowboy hat in the 1860s. He founded the John B. Stetson Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1865, and it became one of the largest hat manufacturers in the world.
Stetson is an American brand of hat manufactured by the John B. Stetson Company. "Stetson" is also used as a generic trademark to refer to any campaign hat , particularly in Scouting . John B. Stetson gained inspiration for his most famous hats when he headed west from his native New Jersey for health reasons.
The son of famed hatmaker John Batterson Stetson, [1] John Stetson Jr. was born on October 14, 1884, in Philadelphia. [2] He studied at William Penn Charter School , and later at Harvard University , [ 3 ] graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1907, one year behind his original graduating class, due to illness.
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The Cavalry Stetson is a cavalry traditional headgear within the United States Army, typical worn by cavalrymen in the late 1860s, named after its creator John B. Stetson. In the modern U.S. Army, the Stetson was revived as an unofficial headgear for the sake of esprit de corps in the cavalry .
The John B. Stetson House (known locally as the Stetson Mansion), built for hat manufacturer (and inventor of the cowboy hat) John B. Stetson, is a historic home in DeLand, Florida, United States. It is located at 1031 Camphor Lane. The house was designed by popular Philadelphia architect George T. Pearson in 1886.