This Week in History

May 5, 1830, John B. Stetson was born in Orange, New Jersey. He spent his early years working in his fathers hat-making shop where he learned the trade. Stetson then moved on, setting up his own hat making business in Philadelphia. It was there that Stetson became ill with tuberculosis. The popular treatment then was to send tuberculosis patients west, to drier climates. He followed the advice, an...