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  2. Charles Alfred Pillsbury - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Pilsbury (family) - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Pillsbury (brand) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Pillsbury (surname) - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. George A. Pillsbury - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. List of American heiresses - Wikipedia

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    Catherine Murat, Princess Murat (née Catherine Daingerfield Willis). This is a non-exhaustive list of some American socialites, so called American dollar princesses, from before the Gilded Age to the end of the 20th century, who married into the European titled nobility, peerage, or royalty.

  8. Charles Pillsbury - Wikipedia

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    Charles Pillsbury may refer to: Charles Alfred Pillsbury (1842–1899), flour magnate; Charles Pillsbury (attorney), Connecticut attorney and activist

  9. Philip W. Pillsbury - Wikipedia

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    His father, Charles S. Pillsbury, was a long-time company director. He graduated from The Hotchkiss School in 1920, [ 1 ] and was a member of the Yale College Class of 1924. He was a starting guard on the undefeated and tie-free 1923 football team, an All-American water polo athlete, and a tenor for the Yale Glee Club .