Thomas Lyle Williams
…was an American cosmetician and business executive. He was the founder of cosmetic firm The Maybelline Company. Thomas Lyle Williams Sr. was born in Morganfield, Kentucky, in 1896 to Thomas "TJ" Jefferson and Susan Williams. In 1912, he married Bennie Gibbs, with whom he had one son, Thomas Lyle Williams Jr (1912–1978…