After his initial company failed, he and a new financial backer formed the New York Condensed Milk Company in 1857 at Wassaic, NY. Shortly after the Civil War erupted, Borden received a War ...

By the time Borden invented condensed milk, writes Sam Moore for Farm Collector, he’d created an amphibious vehicle (it crashed), served meals of his own invention that included bonemeal bread ...

Borden became compelled to find a solution ... former Union soldiers who’d received sweetened condensed milk as food rations from the U.S. government introduced the product to the general ...

Gail Borden, the man for which Elgin’s library is named, is credited with inventing a new way to condense milk and establishing the the Elgin Milk Condensing Co. The Elgin Area Historical ...