Monday, December 3, 2012

On This Date in Minnesota History: December 3

December 3, 1842 – “Flour magnate Charles A. Pillsbury was born in New Hampshire [on this date] and came to Minneapolis in 1869. At his death in 1899, the Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Company was the largest in the world.”
http://www.thehistorypeople.com/data/docs/timeline-part1.pdf




Charles A. Pillsbury

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Alfred_Pillsbury-Atwater.jpg

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