the gum inventor john curtis... whats his real name....the john (b) curtis...what does b stand for?

Question

the gum inventor oh ya who were his family

Answer 1

The first commercial gum was made by John Bacon Curtis in 1848.
http://www.promotega.org/HGR06017/evol.html

John Curtis and his son, John Bacon Curtis, thought they could package and market it. In the mid-1800s, they experimented with the first manufacture of chewing gum sticks. First they boiled the spruce gum and skimmed off impurities such as bark before adding sugar and other fillers. Then they rolled it, let it cool, and cut it into sticks which they dipped in cornstarch, wrapped in paper, and placed in small wooden boxes. The Curtis company thrived, and business grew still further when the younger Curtis developed a machine to mass produce gum and founded the first chewing gum factory. The Curtis's manufacturing process is roughly the same one used to produce chewing gum today.
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Chewing-Gum.html

Answer 2

John Bacon Curtis