The formation of Miami-based Lehman Pipe & Supply occurred because of an ultimatum. Current Lehman Pipe President Dennis Lehman’s father, Julian, worked for his brother-in-law in the 1940s at a plumbing supply house in the Jacksonville, Florida area.
“My dad went to his brother-in-law and said, ‘You promised me a $2 raise when I get married, and I am getting married,’” Lehman recalls. “He told my dad he couldn’t afford to give him a raise.”