Lilly, Eli, 1885-1977
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Lilly, Eli
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Lilly, Eli, philanthropist and pharmacologist, President Eli Lilly and Company
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Epithet: philanthropist and pharmacologist, President Eli Lilly and Company
Eli Lilly was an Indianapolis pharmaceutical heir and magnate, philanthropist, and avocational archaeologist and historian.
Lilly was an Indianapolis manufacturing chemist, corporate official, and philanthropist. He was born in Indianapolis, the son of Josiah Kirby Lilly. He graduated from Shortridge High School, and took a pharmaceutical degree from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science in 1907. In that year he began work for the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company. He served as vice president of the company from 1920 to 1932; president from 1932 to 1948, and became chairman in 1948. As a philanthropist, he aided numerous artistic, historic and educational organizations in the state, and served on the boards of numerous schools and foundations. He married Evelyn Fortune in 1907; he married his second wife, Ruth Allison, in 1927.
Evelyn Fortune Bartlett was the daughter of Indianapolis publisher William Fortune. She married Eli Lilly in 1927, and later married Frederic Clay Bartlett of Massachusetts.
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