{{Short description|American boot manufacturer}} {{More citations needed|date=November 2016}}
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'''Acme Boots''' was the name of a company that produced boots. It eventually just became a brand name, and was last owned by H.H. Brown, until it was placed under their Double-H Boots brand label.
==Etymology== Acme (ακμή; English transliteration: ''akmē'') is Ancient Greek for "(highest) point, edge; peak of anything", being used in English with the meaning of "prime" or "the best", initially when referring to a period in someone's life<ref>[https://www.etymonline.com/word/acme acme] at etymonline.com. Accessed 19 Nov. 2022.</ref> and then extending to anything or anyone who reaches perfection in a certain regard.<ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acme acme] at Merriam-Webster online. Accessed 19 Nov. 2022.</ref>
==History== During the Great Depression, two Chicago shoe manufacturers, Jessel Cohn and his son, Sidney, decided to move their children's and infants' shoemaking plant from Chicago, Illinois, to Clarksville, Tennessee. They set up their business in a two-story brick building on Crossland Avenue and called it the '''Acme Shoe Manufacturing Company'''. They hired 100 employees and began producing sandal-like footwear for children and infants under the name Just-Kids. The Cohns continued their children's business until 1935, when the senior Cohn returned home from a business trip to Texas. Shortly after, the Cohns dropped their children's footwear line in favor of making western boots and renamed the company '''Acme Boots'''. In the 1940s, Acme Boots became the largest maker of cowboy boots and remained the world's largest until the mid-1980s.<ref name="Vintage Cowboy Boots:1930s Acme Cowgirl Boots">{{cite web|title=1930s Acme Cowgirl Boots|url=http://vintagecowboyboots.blogspot.co.il/2007/09/1930s-acme-cowgirl-boots.html|publisher=Vintage Cowboy Boots|access-date=9 November 2016|date=1 September 2007}}</ref>
Acme Boots has since been held by various corporations, including Arena Brands of Dallas, Texas, which licensed the Acme Brand to the Texas Boot Company of Lebanon, Tennessee, in 2000. In 2002, Texas Boot put the Acme Boot brand up for sale, where it was purchased by H.H. Brown, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, and placed under the Double-H Boots brand label, where it remains today.
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==External links== {{Portal|Companies}} * [http://www.hhbrown.com H. H. Brown Corporate Division website] {{Berkshire Hathaway}}
Category:Shoe companies of the United States Category:Clothing companies established in 1929 Category:Companies based in Chicago Category:Berkshire Hathaway Category:1929 establishments in Illinois Category:Defunct companies based in Chicago