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Morton Salt is an American food company producing salt for food, water conditioning, industrial, agricultural, and road/highway use. Based in Chicago , [ 1 ] the business is North America's leading producer and marketer of salt.
Morton was born on September 27, 1855, in Detroit, Michigan. [2] His mother, Caroline Joy, was an accomplished artist, musician, and gardener. His father, Julius Sterling Morton, a newspaperman and a leader in Nebraska territorial and state politics, played a key role in establishing Arbor Day, and served as the United States secretary of agriculture in the second administration (1893–1897 ...
The Salt Shed is an indoor and outdoor music venue/entertainment hub located in West Town, Chicago. The area was previously owned by Morton Salt before they relocated their facility. The outdoor section adjacent to the Chicago River and Goose Island, named "The Fairgrounds", holds a capacity of 5,000 people. The indoor section, named "The Shed ...
Morton has been headquartered in Chicago since 1848, and in 1914 introduced the iconic umbrellaed Morton Salt Girl to emphasize the free-flowing quality of its table salt, which has a small amount ...
Chicago police and fire responded Tuesday to a partial building collapse at a Morton Salt company building on 1301 N. Elston, WGN reports.
In 1885, he and Joy Morton co-founded the Joy Morton Lumber Co. They later co-founded the Morton Sand and Gravel Company. [3] They purchased Richmond and Company, a salt distributor in 1886 and renamed it Joy Morton and Company. Mark Morton was the company's vice president and one of its directors from its founding until his retirement in 1922.
His son, Joy Morton, is the founder of the Morton Salt Company, Chicago, Illinois. The son also created The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois, in 1922. Today, Joy Morton's original 400-acre (1.6 km 2 ) Thornhill Estate, which he acquired in 1910, has been transformed into a 1,700-acre (6.9 km 2 ) living history museum of over 4,000 different ...
Arthur Cutten frequently referred to himself as a "dirt farmer", and in 1912 he bought a 500-acre (2 km 2) farm property adjacent to property owned by Joy Morton, founder of the Morton Salt Company, not far from Chicago in DuPage County, Illinois, in what is now the Hidden Lake Forest Preserve. [2]