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About John Batterson Stetson
John Batterson Stetson 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. The company's hats are now commonly referred to simply as Stetsons.
Everything about John Batterson Stetson →- Occupation
- inventor, entrepreneur
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 5, 1830
- Died
- February 18, 1906