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Lillian Goodwin was an American businesswoman who co-founded private auto insurance company GEICO with her husband Leo Goodwin, Sr. in 1936. She was the mother to Leo Goodwin, Jr. She moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the 1960s. [1] She died in 1970.
Leo Goodwin Sr. (1886–1971) was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for founding private auto insurance company GEICO in 1936, with his wife Lillian Goodwin.
- Insurance industry
- Co=founder of GEICO
- 1936-1958 (retirement)
- Lillian Goodwin
Leo and Lillian Goodwin: American Dreamers In the mid-1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, there weren't many people with the foresight and courage to start up a new company. Yet the husband and wife team of Leo and Lillian Goodwin were up to the challenge.
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Titanic. Victims. Miss Lillian Augusta Goodwin. Lillian Augusta Goodwin was born in Newington, Middlesex, England on 12 March 1896. She was the daughter of Frederick Joseph Goodwin (b. 1870), a printer and compositor, and Augusta Tyler (b. 1868), natives of Surrey and Middlesex respectively who had married on 25 December 1894.
- Female
- English
- Melksham, Wiltshire, England
- Servant
1936 – GEICO is established by Leo and Lillian Goodwin. 1948 – Investment banker Lorimer Davidson joins the company and expands its pool of investors. 1951 – Columbia University business student Warren Buffett makes his first purchase of GEICO stock.
Nov 13, 2018 · Leo Goodwin: A 50-year-old first time entrepreneur who started what is today a giant household name company. In 1936, during the Great Depression, Leo, an accountant and insurance salesperson, and his wife Lillian, a bookkeeper, had a great idea and the courage to act on it.
At the height of the Great Depression, it took a special kind of vision to take a chance on a startup, which is exactly what the husband-and-wife duo of Leo and Lillian Goodwin did. In 1936, they...
