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The company was founded in 1869 by Charles Alfred Pillsbury and John S. Pillsbury. Pillsbury asserted that the Pillsbury "A" Mill was the largest grain mill in the world [15] William Pillsbury, from whom the American branch of the family descend from, became a resident of Newbury sixteen years after its settlement.
In 1872, Pillsbury persuaded his father and his uncle to join him in an expansion of the business and the firm of Charles A. Pillsbury & Co. entered upon a career of remarkable enterprise. A brother, Frederick C. Pillsbury, came into the firm at a later date. The company's history in flour milling became synonymous with the history of the industry.
Charles Alfred Pillsbury (1842–1899), founder of C.A. Pillsbury and Company (later Pillsbury Company) Edward Pilsbury (1824–1882), 38th mayor of New Orleans; George A. Pillsbury (1816–1898), businessman and miller associated with the formation of the Pillsbury Company; George S. Pillsbury (1925–2012) American businessman and politician
Postcard featuring Pillsbury with the caption, "the Largest Flour Mill in the World, Minneapolis, Minnesota." C.A. Pillsbury and Company was founded in 1869 by Charles Alfred Pillsbury and his uncle John S. Pillsbury. The company was second in the United States (after Washburn-Crosby) to use steel rollers for processing grain.
Pillsbury was born in Sutton, New Hampshire in 1816 to John Pillsbury and Susan Pillsbury (née Wadleigh). Both were the descendants of English settlers who had been active political and civic leaders in New England. Pillsbury attended the local schools until the age of 18 when he moved to Boston, Massachusetts to work as a clerk in a store ...
Pillsbury was a lifelong Republican who built a magnificent summer home where he and his wife of 57 years raised their growing family. He married Eleanor Jerusha Lawler [11] (b. August 31, 1887) on December 5, 1911, and they had six children of which Edmund and Charles died early in life. [12]
Rosenella Winifred Cruciani "Rose" Totino (January 16, 1915 – June 21, 1994) was an American entrepreneur and pizzeria owner whose frozen pizza business co-founded with her husband became the foundation for the Totino's brand. When selling the company to Pillsbury, Totino was hired as the first female vice president of a Fortune 500 company.
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (née Talbot; c. 1580 – March 1649) was the wife of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke. Mary was the daughter of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury , by his wife Mary , and was thus a granddaughter of Bess of Hardwick .