John Galardi, was the founder of Wienerschnitzel, The Original Hamburger Stand and Tastee Freez. Galardi got his start in the fast food business working at Taco Tia under Taco Bell founder Glen Bell. D...

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Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The 1st Earl of Iveagh. Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, KP, GCVO, FRS (November 10, 1847 - October 7, 1927) wa...

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Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne DSO and Bar PC (29 March 1880 – 6 November 1944) was a British politician and businessman. He was assassinated in Cairo by the Zionist group Lehi, known in the U...

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Originally from Alberschweiler in Bavaria, Germany, 45 year old Elias Kahn immigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1880 with his wife and nine children. Cincinnati, also known as "Porkopolis", had previousl...

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Founder of Armour & Company. was born in Stockbridge, New York to Danforth Armour and Juliana Ann Brooks. He was one of eight children and grew up on his family's farm. Armour was mostly of Scottis...

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Funeral services for Louis Franklin Swift, former president and chairman of the board of Swift & Co., will be held at 3:30 p.m. today in the Lake Forest Presbyterian church. The services will be cond...

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Gustavus Franklin Swift (June 24, 1839 – March 29, 1903) founded a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during the late 19th century, over which he presided until his death. He is credited with the dev...

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paul Hoy Helms (September 19, 1889 – January 5, 1957) was an American executive in the baking industry and sports philanthropist. He founded the Helms Bakery in ...

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Asa Griggs Candler (December 30, 1851 – March 12, 1929) was an American business tycoon who made most of his money selling Coca-Cola. He also served as mayor of Atlanta, Georgia from 1916 to 1919. Ca...

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"Directory and Genealogy of the Horowitz-Margareten Family- from Generation to Generation" revised Edition 1994. -No. H123- chart no. 2-A & chart no. 26 Regina Margareten (1863-1959) According to t...

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Birth: Nov. 2, 1888 Death: Jan. 7, 1949 Dairy Farmer. Adamson was a lawyer who went to work as Superintendant of the 13,000 acre Malibu Ranch in Los Angeles County. He met and married the owner's...

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Birth: Apr. 20, 1893 Death: Apr. 2, 1962 Daughter of Frederick Hastings Rindge (owner of the 13,000 acre Malibu Ranch), and wife of Merritt H. Adamson, dairy farmer. The Adamsons established the ...

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Mayer, Oscar Gustave Age 95, passed away on Monday, July 6, 2009, at HospiceCare Inc. He was born in Chicago, IL, March 16, 1914, the son of Oscar Gottfried and Elsa (Stieglitz) Mayer. Oscar entered Ni...

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Mayer, Oscar (1859-1955) Oscar Mayer Foods Overview Oscar Mayer Foods, now part of the Kraft General Foods empire, was founded in 1883 by a German immigrant named Oscar Ferdinand Mayer. His compa...

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Robert "Pea Soup" Andersen became the heir of Anderson's Electric Cafe which later became known as Pea Soup Andersen's. The story of this company is his father Anton Anderson, born in Denmark, purchase...

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Anton Anderson, born in Denmark, purchased land (present day Santa Barbara), in California on June 13, 1924. The land was owned by the Buell brothers, and when Mr. RT Buell had died his body was buried...

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Claus Spreckels, formally Adolph Claus J. Spreckels (July 9, 1828 – December 26, 1908) was a major industrialist in Hawai'i during the kingdom, republican and territorial periods of the islands' histor...

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Betty Pink was the co-founder of the famous Hollywood landmark Pink's Hot Dogs in Los Angeles, California along with her husband Paul Pink. Pink's famous chili dog is bases on her recipe. She passed ...

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Paul Pink was the co-founder of the famous Hollywood landmark Pink's Hot Dogs in Los Angeles, California along with his wife Betty Pink. Pink started his hot dog stand in 1939. It was only a large-wh...

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Duncan Hines March 25, 1880-March 15, 1959 Parents: Edward Ludlow Hines 1842-1920 and Cornelia Duncan 1846-1884 Wife: Florence Chaffin Duncan Hines was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He later m...

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Demos Shakarian (1913-1993), Pentecostal founder of the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship International (FGBMFI). Demos Shakarian was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Presbyterian Armenia...

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DOWNEY – Similar to other communities throughout Los Angeles County, the turn of the twentieth century proved to be a catalytic period for Downey economic development. Nestled in the heart of Los Nie...

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William Drew Washburn (January 14, 1831 – July 29, 1912) was an American politician. He served in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate as a Republican from Min...

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Arthur Guinness (24 September 1725–23 January 1803) was an Irish brewer and the founder of the Guinness Brewery business and family. Local tradition holds that Arthur Guinness was born at the Read ho...

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George Speck aka Crum (1822 - 1914) In the summer of 1853, George Crum, The son of an African American Father and a Native American Mother, was employed as a chef at an elegant resort in Saratoga Spr...

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In 1926, Laura Clough Scudder started Laura Scudder's in Monterey Park, California making potato chips. Naming the company after herself reflected her personal dedication and pride in offering the high...

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Julius Freed (August 13, 1887 – April 23, 1952) was an American banker, mechanical engineer, and amateur pigeon racer, notable for his involvement in the creation of the beverage Orange Julius. Freed...

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Founder of Folger Coffee company. Find A Grave Memorial # 3259

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Russell Stover (May 6, 1888 – May 11, 1954) was the founder of the Russell Stover Candies. Stover was born in a sod house south of Alton, Kansas in Osborne County, Kansas. His family moved to Iowa City...

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William F. Semple, A dentist from Mount Vernon, Ohio is commonly referred to as the first person anywhere to patent a chewing gum. On December 28, 1869 Semple filed Patent No. 98,304 with the U.S. Comm...

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C.W. Post was the son of Charles Rollins Post and his wife Caroline Lathrop. He visited the Battle Creek Sanitarium operated by John Harvey Kellogg for his failing health. He was inspired to start hi...

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Ruth Bigelow (Campbell) Founded Bigelow Tea Company.

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U.S. flour industrialist Charles Alfred Pillsbury founded the Pillsbury Company along with his uncle, John Sargent Pillsbury. From 1877 to 1897, he was Minnesota State Senator and held the chairmanship...

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John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was a Confederate veteran who was wounded in the Battle of Columbus, Georgia and an American druggist. He was best known for being the inventor o...

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Clarence Frank Birdseye II (December 9, 1886 – October 7, 1956) was an American inventor who is considered the founder of the modern method of freezing food. In 2005, he was inducted into the Nationa...

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Mary Ann was George's real Mom. the accounts vary on what happen to her after she was kidnapped. one of the accounts is below George Washington Carver (January 1864 - January 5, 1943), was an America...

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Vitals Born: 11-Dec-1889 Birthplace: San Bernardino, CA Died: 3-Dec-1981 Location of death: Buena Park, CA Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Loma Vista Memorial Park, Fullerton...

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Vitals AKA: Burt Born: 17-Dec-1913 Birthplace: San Diego, CA Died: 24-Dec-1967 Location of death: Los Angeles, CA Cause of death: Heart Failure Remains: Buried, Home of Peace Memorial P...

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Vitals Born: 6-Dec-1917 Birthplace: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Died: 5-May-2008 Location of death: Rancho Mirage, CA Cause of death: Natural Causes Remains: Buried, Forest Lawn Memorial P...

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William Wrigley Jr. (September 30, 1861–January 26, 1932) was a U.S. chewing gum industrialist. He was founder and eponym of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in 1891. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylv...

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Information on Milton Hershey from Wikipedia Milton Snavely Hershey (September 13, 1857 – October 13, 1945) was an American confectioner, philanthropist, and founder of The Hershey Chocolate Company ...

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In 1844 Washburn formed a partnership with land agent, Cyrus Woodman. Together the two men developed a number of companies, such as the Wisconsin Mining Company. The most successful business venture un...

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Will Keith (W.K.) Kellogg , was born April 7, 1860. W.K., along with his brother, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, was the co-inventor of flaked cereal. Although W.K. lacked a formal education beyond the sixth...

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Born in 1867, Caleb Bradham grew up in Duplin County, North Carolina and enrolled in 1886 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He later studied at the University of Maryland in hopes of ...

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Kentucky Fried Chicken, pioneered by Colonel Harland Sanders, has grown to become one of the largest quick service food service systems in the world - with more than a billion "finger lickin' good" Ken...

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Carl Karcher dropped out of school after eighth grade to work on the farm where his father was a sharecropper. At 20, an uncle offered him work at his Karcher's Feed and Seed Store in downtown Anaheim,...

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Beeman’s Chewing Gum Back in the 19th century, Americans learned that the sap of the Marmalade Plum tree could be chewed. This tree is a native of Central America and natives chewed gum made from t...

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