1. John Peterman was born on 1941 and is an American catalog and retail entrepreneur from Lexington, Kentucky, who operates the J Peterman Company.
30 Facts About John Peterman
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John Peterman grew up in West Nyack, New York as the son of a banker and secretary.
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John Peterman is known for founding the J Peterman Company after finding a cowboy duster on a business trip.
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John Peterman is known for being fictionalized in the TV series Seinfeld.
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John Peterman was the third of four children born to Charles and Sally John Peterman.
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Charles John Peterman became a loan officer and, later, the assistant vice president of the Irving Trust Co.
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John Peterman grew up in Van Houten Fields, an agrarian commune in West Nyack, New York.
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John Peterman learned to garden, tend chickens, and participate in other physical labor.
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John Peterman's mother worked as an administrative assistant after her children started school.
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John Peterman was recognized in the local newspaper for his performance in all three sports.
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John Peterman graduated from the College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1963 with a Bachelor of Science in economics.
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John Peterman played third base on the Holy Cross baseball teams that went to the College World Series in 1962 and 1963.
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John Peterman played minor-league baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates organization for two seasons as a second baseman.
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In 1963, John Peterman had a one-day tryout with the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium where he played next to Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Tony Kubek, but did not sign with the team.
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John Peterman had a career in sales for 20 years after his baseball career ended.
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The beer cheese business was originally Hall's Beer Cheese and John Peterman bought half the company.
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In 1986, John Peterman was on a business trip in Denver, Colorado, and decided to explore Wyoming.
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John Peterman went to Jackson Hole and bought a horseman's duster because he liked it.
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That led to the sale of about 70 coats and the J Peterman Company was created.
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John Peterman found unique items to sell in the catalog and Staley wrote the product descriptions.
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John Peterman continued to grow and, in 1995, the TV show Seinfeld debuted J Peterman as a character played by John O'Hurley.
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John Peterman sold $1 million worth of necklace replicas along with other costume and prop replicas.
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However, in 2000, Paul Harris Stores went bankrupt and John Peterman was able to buy back his namesake brand.
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The J Peterman Company catalog was relaunched and Tim Peterman, John Peterman's son, was the CEO of J Peterman Company until 2014.
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John Peterman developed Peterman's Eye, a social networking site, and an online catalog that offers mail-order inventory, as well as unique antiques.
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John Peterman was married to his wife, Audrey in 1964.
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Tim Peterman was CEO of J Peterman Company from 2008 until 2014, and helped build the company's web presence.
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Around 2014, Matt Peterman started working at the J Peterman Company as Creative Director after spending time in Los Angeles, California, in the film business.
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John Peterman owns a cabin on a 550-acre parcel of land in Lexington, Kentucky, that was formerly farmed by his son Sean.
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In 2001, John Peterman presented a lecture titled "The Painful but Essential Art of Failing" at his alma mater, College of the Holy Cross.