E joseph crossman biography of nancy

OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born April 13, 1918, in Pittsburgh, PA; died of complications from a stroke December 7, 2002, in Palm Springs, CA.

Businessman and author. Cossman was an entrepreneur who was the creator of the ant farm. He also made millions of dollars selling various novelties and conducting sales seminars. He started his career before World War II as a door-to-door salesman.

E joseph crossman biography of nancy

From 1941 to 1945 he served in the U.S. Army, and in 1946 he cofounded his own mail order company, E. Joseph Cossman & Co., with his brother-in-law, Milton Levine. They sold novelty items around the country and also sold soap to customers in Europe.

During the 1950s Cossman came up with his ant farm idea, which became an extremely successful product sold to children all across the country. Cossman's other innovation was a fishing lure that smells like meat. Other than these two inventions, the products he sold were invented by others, includin