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Henry Alvah Strong (August 30, 1838 – July 26, 1919) was an American photography businessman. He was the first president of the Eastman Kodak Company.
Henry Alvah Strong (August 30, 1838 – July 26, 1919) was an American photography businessman. He was the first president of the Eastman Kodak Company.
With the proceeds from licensing this patent, together with an investment from local buggy-whip manufacturer Henry A. Strong, Eastman founded the Eastman Dry Plate Company (later known as Eastman Kodak Company) on Jan. 1, 1881, in Rochester, New York.
In 1880, George Eastman, a young hobbyist photographer and school dropout, became one of the first to successfully manufacture dry plates commercially in the United States. One year later Eastman and Henry Strong formed a partnership called the Eastman Dry Plate Company.
Success of the dry plate venture so impressed businessman Henry A. Strong, that he invested some money in the infant concern. On January 1, 1881, Eastman and Strong formed a partnership called the Eastman Dry Plate Company.
Strong's younger brother, Henry A. Strong, was a successful businessman and philanthropist who served as Eastman Kodak's first president. [citation needed] His youngest uncle became a Forty-niners in the California Gold Rush, after losing both his wife and infant son.
Henry Strong may refer to: Henry Strong (ATSF), president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Henry A. Strong (1838–1919), first president of Eastman Kodak Company. Henry G. Strong (1873–1919), New York businessman.
