Orville Bulman
Orville Bulman was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1904 to Margaret Agnes (Maggie) and Elvah O. Bulman, known as E. O. Though E. O. only had a formal education up to the eighth grade, he was both industrious and clever. He designed and built a number of devices to dispense and cut twine and paper for shop-owners and their customers which were used for wrapping parcels. His ingenuity, matched by his business acumen, enabled him to grow his company from a modest cottage industry into a corporation that supplied its products to stores around the world. By the time his son Orville was in high school, E. O. had established his family in the upper class of Grand Rapids society.
