Bill was an entrepreneur that co-founded the Snap-On Wrench Company.
Bill had another talent, he was in the band that played at Traugott’s 79th Birthday Party – photo on page 34 in the 4th Edition of Family Tree Book.
He is a grandson of Traugott Seidemann and the son of Fred & Hulda Seidemann.
It was Fred’s idea to start the Seidemann Family Reunion back in 1933.
Joseph Johnson and Bill Seidemann co-founded the Snap-on Wrench Company in 1920 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The business manufactured and marketed ten sockets that would “snap on” to five interchangeable handles. The company’s slogan was “5 do the work of 50”. In 1929, they moved the burgeoning company’s headquarters south to Kenosha, Wisconsin. Snap-On was instrumental in popularizing the socket wrench.
The company expanded over the years as the designer, manufacturer, and global marketer of high-end tools and equipment for professional use in the transportation industry, including the automotive, heavy duty equipment, marine, aviation, and railroad industries.
Bill was granted three US Patents on tools he developed. He retired in 1954.
Many of us have seen the Snap-On trucks making their mobile rounds to deliver directly to those having repair businesses. If you are familiar with the Kobalt line of tools available at Lowe’s, it will be of interest to you that Snap-on Incorporated produced the Kobalt line from 1998 to 2002, in partnership with Lowe’s home improvement chain.