Jergens apparently supplied the $5,000 capital necessary to finally get the operation launched, so the company bore his name. Haworth), to form a new partnership in 1882, one (or both) of which then became known as the Jergens Soap Company. Geilfus, variously described as a fellow common laborer, neighbor or older soap maker, joined, either to reorganize Geilfus’s existing business in 1880 (or with one W.L. It is said that he and a man named Charles H. At twenty, he moved to Cincinnati, and, as with all creation myths, the story of the founding of his company is told in slightly different ways in different accounts. However, before Schleswig changed hands, Andrew had emigrated with his family to Indiana in 1859. was born in 1852 in Schleswig, a southern province of Denmark invaded and incorporated into Prussia in 1864.
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