Elbridge A. Stuart, founder of Carnation Company.
Elbridge Amos Stuart knew almost nothing about the evaporated-milk business when Thomas E. Yerxa persuaded him to join in the purchase of a bankrupt condensery in Kent, Washington in 1899. Having grown up on a farm in Indiana, however, Stuart was acquainted with dairying, and as the former proprieto...
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| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles,
Carnation Co.
[©1949]
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| Summary: | Elbridge Amos Stuart knew almost nothing about the evaporated-milk business when Thomas E. Yerxa persuaded him to join in the purchase of a bankrupt condensery in Kent, Washington in 1899. Having grown up on a farm in Indiana, however, Stuart was acquainted with dairying, and as the former proprietor of a general store in El Paso, Texas and later a wholesale grocery in Los Angeles, he recognized the value of sanitary milk at a time when fresh milk was neither universally available nor always potable. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 238 pages illustrations, portraits 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Bibliography contained in Appendix, p.238. |