Corporate records. 1861-2000.

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Corporate records. 1861-2000.

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Materials within the collection provide historical, biographical, administative, aural, and pictorial information about the company's growth from the small New Prague Flouring Mill, founded in 1892, into a public conglomerate with international offices, operations, and markets. Information covers the corporation's executive officers; its manufacturing, warehouse, and distribution facilities; its subsidiaries and product lines; promotional programs; and advertising campaigns.

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Bean, Francis Atherton, 1878-1955.

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International Milling Company, Inc.

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Founded in 1892 by Francis Atherton Bean, Sr. at New Prague, Minn. Construction on a Buffalo mill, the company's largest, began in 1926. Conpleted in 1927, it had the capacity to produce 20,000 cwt. of flour per day. The Buffalo mill also produced formula feeds for livestock and poultry. The company name was changed in the early 1970's to International Multifoods Corp., and in 1988 International Multifoods was sold to ConAgra, Inc. From the description of International Milling Compan...

Bean, Francis Atherton, 1840-1930.

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Francis Atherton Bean III, known as Atherton Bean, was born on September 14, 1910, in New Prague, Minnesota. His parents were Francis Atherton and Bertha Boynton Bean. He attended the Blake School in Minneapolis, graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. degree from Carleton College (1931), did post-graduate work at the Harvard School of Business Administration (1931-1932), and received a B.A. degree from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar (1934). Atherton Bean married Winifred Eliza...

International Multifoods Corporation

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The company that would become International Multifoods Corporation began as a small flour mill in 1892 on property leased in New Prague, Minnesota. The mill was operated by F. A. Bean, Sr., a man who, with his father, had previously owned the Polar Star Milling Company of Faribault which, in 1890 or 1891, had closed with an amassed debt of over $100,000. After four years of profitable operation at the New Prague site and at a site purchased in Wells, Minnesota, Bean lost the New Pra...