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Cornwell Tools company history timeline

1919

Cornwell is committed to the pride that accompanies the sale of quality materials, and Cornwell continues to produce the finest tools in the world – those that have truly been “The Choice of Professionals®” since 1919.

1935

1935: Cornwell product catalog - 48 pages

1956

Patricia Cornwell, née Patricia Carroll Daniels, (born June 9, 1956, Miami, Florida, United States), American crime writer best known for her best-selling series featuring the medical examiner Doctor Kay Scarpetta.

1960

Harper Lee’s best-known book is the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which was published in 1960.

1961

To Kill a Mockingbird received a Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.

1962

Don Cornwell talks about the 1962 Seattle World's Fair

1965

After graduating from Stadium, Cornwell enrolled at Occidental College in Los Angeles in 1965.

1969

Don Cornwell talks about black empowerment and the Black Panther shootings in 1969

1971

Cornwell was first hired by Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York in 1971.

1980

By 1980, he was promoted to chief operating officer of the Goldman Sachs’ corporate finance department of the investment banking division.

1983

Cornwell’s first book, A Time for Remembering (1983), was a biography of Ruth Graham, who had served as a surrogate mother.

She also wrote a few short essays, including “Romance and High Adventure” (1983), devoted to Alabama history.

1988

In 1988, Cornwell left the securities firm to found Granite Broadcasting Corporation.

1990

Scarpetta—much like Cornwell in appearance and ideology and seemingly a self-portrait—was featured as a medical examiner in Postmortem (1990), and with this book Cornwell’s writing career was launched.

1991

Don Cornwell talks about the stations Granite Broadcasting purchased after going public in 1991

1999

1999: Cornwell Tech-Credit department was created

2004

2004: Cornwell opened Utah warehouse

2005

2005: 85th Anniversary Cornwell Product Catalog - 328 pages

2007

2007: Expansion of Wadsworth, OH corporate office

2009

Cornwell stepped down as the company chairman and CEO in 2009.

2012

2012: Cornwell began sponsoring GearZ® TV and Stacey David

2014

2014: 95th Anniversary Cornwell Product Catalog - 416 pages

2015

She wrote the novel Go Set a Watchman before To Kill a Mockingbird, but it was not published until 2015.

2016

2016: Cornwell acquired tool storage manufacturer Kennedy® Manufacturing

2017

2017: Opened a 107,000 square foot, state-of-the-art warehouse in Wadsworth, OH

2019

The Captain Chase series, which began with Quantum (2019), features a female protagonist who is a NASA pilot, quantum physicist, and cybercrime investigator.

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