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The Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1881 as a market to trade grain. ... Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915–1945. UNC Press Books.
Charles Morgridge Loring (November 13, 1833 – March 18, 1922) was an American businessman, miller and publicist. Raised in Maine to be a sea captain, Loring instead became a civic leader in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he was a wealthy flour miller and in Riverside, California where he helped to build the first city hall.
Walker founded the Minneapolis Public Library. He was among the ten wealthiest men in the world in 1923. [1] He built two company towns, one of which his son sold to become part of what is today known as Sunkist. He is the founder and namesake of the Walker Art Center.
The Minneapolis Grain Exchange was founded in 1881; located near the riverfront, it is the only exchange as of 2023 for hard red spring wheat futures. [ 314 ] Along with cash requirements for the milling industry, the large amounts of capital that lumbering had accumulated stimulated the local banking industry and made Minneapolis a major ...
He founded the State Atlas, a weekly newspaper, in 1859. King became known for his strong editorials and columns opposing slavery. [2] Later, he helped create the Minneapolis Tribune, and became a major stockholder in the Pioneer Press in neighboring Saint Paul. [2] There are also indications that he became a principal owner of the Minneapolis ...
Pillsbury was drawn to business in Minneapolis after experiencing and observing the commercial interests in Montreal, which processed grain from the west. Pillsbury's uncle, John S. Pillsbury , had settled at the Falls of St. Anthony at Minneapolis in 1855; in 1869, Charles Pillsbury moved to the growing city of Minneapolis and established his ...
The company was founded in a year that Ulysses S. Grant was sworn in as president and Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. Buyenlarge ...
At a Minneapolis campus from 1927 until the 1990s, Honeywell, experts in variable feedback-control, [163] had a national profile in military technology. [164] Medtronic, founded in a Minneapolis garage in 1949, is the world's largest medical device maker as of 2020. [165]