Gail Borden

Gail Borden, III, was a native New Yorker who settled in Texas in 1829, where he worked as a land surveyor, newspaper publisher, and inventor he is most known as the developer of condensed milk in 1853. Borden coplotted the cities of Houston and Galveston in 1836. Having returned to the New York area to market another product, he set up factories for condensed milk in Connecticut, and later in New York and Illinois. Demand was high for his product by the Union Army during the American Civil War. His New York Condensed Milk Company changed its name to Borden after his death.

Gail Borden, III, was born in Norwich, New York, onNovember 1801 to Gail Borden, Jr. a pioneer and landowner, and his wife Philadelphia Wheeler , who died at age 48 from yellow fever in Nashville, Tennessee. The details of Bordens childhood are unclear, but he moved twice with his family while growing up, first to Kennedys Ferry, Kentucky , and in 1816 to New London, Indiana. Borden received his only formal schooling in Indiana, attending school during 1816 and 1817 to learn the art of surveying.

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