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Donald Bruce Kaufman was born on 7 May, 1922 in Detroit, Michigan, is a Donald Bruce Kaufman was home builder. Discover Donald Bruce Kaufman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

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Occupation Home Builder, Co-founder KB Home
Age 61 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 7 May, 1922
Birthday 7 May
Birthplace Detroit, Michigan
Date of death 1983
Died Place Camarillo, California
Nationality United States

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His wife is Glorya Kaufman (married 1954-1983)

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Wife Glorya Kaufman (married 1954-1983)
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Donald Bruce Kaufman Net Worth

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1922

Donald Bruce Kaufman (1922 – 1983) was an American home builder and entrepreneur who with Eli Broad co-founded Kaufman & Broad, now known as KB Home (NYSE: KBH), in 1957.

Donald Bruce Kaufman was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1922, the third child of immigrant parents from Russia.

His father was a finish carpenter and his mother was ill most of her life with tuberculosis.

Donald was moved around to live with different family members most of his young life.

At the end of World War II he joined the Air Force and became a cadet.

Though he never saw action, he did learn to fly an airplane.

After his service, he gathered some of his friends and started a business framing houses in Detroit.

He later started a contracting company he called ABCO, named so as it would be the first company listed under contractors in the telephone book.

The business received a lot of work after the Korean war, with men returning to the States and needing homes for their growing families.

He later renamed the business Cordell Construction Co.

1954

In 1954, Kaufman married Glorya Kaufman (Pinkis).

They had four children.

1957

In 1957, Kaufman joined with Eli Broad and co-founded Kaufman & Broad, now known as KB Home (NYSE: KBH).

With limited resources, Kaufman handled production, purchasing quality, and material control and Broad did the financial detail and administration work.

Kaufman also devised a method to build homes on cement slabs, which enabled the firm to make a heavy impact on the Detroit market at a time of dwindling demand and high competition for home buyers.

1962

The company expanded to Arizona in 1962 and into California in 1963 and was the first U.S. homebuilder to expand into France in 1967.

1965

In 1965, the Detroit News noted: "Detroit’s building boom has brought Donald Kaufman out of semi-retirement and back from California to lend a strong hand to the business that started here and grew into a nationwide, multi-million dollar operation in only eight years."

Detroit News went on to state how Kaufman could build a three bedroom house with a basement in the cold winter, plowing thru the ice in Detroit Michigan and on the seventh day, customers were talking to the salesmen while walking through a new, furnished home.

Several years later Kaufman eliminated basements and built the new houses on cement slabs.

This lowered the cost of the homes and Kaufman and Broad became the most successful home builders in the United States and France.

Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation went on to become the first publicly traded home building company on the NYSE.

1983

Donald and his son-in-law, Eyal Horwitz, both died in a plane crash January 4, 1983.

1994

In 1994, Glorya Kaufman, family members, and friends made donations for the construction of the 10,040-square-foot Donald Bruce Kaufman branch of the Los Angeles Public Library in Brentwood, Los Angeles.