Research topic: Gail Borden

Gail Borden 1801-74, American dairyman, surveyor, and inventor, b. Norwich, N.Y. He was for several years a deputy surveyor in Mississippi; afterward he joined the colony of Stephen F. Austin in Texas. There, besides farming, stock-raising, and newspaper activities, he superintended the surveying of lands for Austin. He laid out the city of Galveston, where he became collector of customs. After returning (1851) to New York, he worked on a process of evaporating milk , which he patented in 1856. Jeremiah Milbank backed him financially, and the Borden Milk Company (now the Borden Family... Read more