Early Life
Thomas Buckland Jeffery was born on 5 February 1845 at 3 Mill Pleasant in Stoke, Devon, England. At sixteen years of age he was working as a "mathematical instrument maker". At eighteen years of age, he emigrated to the United States and became a resident of Chicago, where "he was connected with the business of manufacturing telescopes". Later he was engaged in making models for the patent office and in 1879 started in the bicycle business, being one of the pioneers in that field. He, with R. Philip Gormully, organized the Gormully & Jeffery Manufacturing Company and began making the Rambler.
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