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 ...

On this day in 1856, Gail Borden received a patent for “the concentration of milk,” now known as “condensed milk.” Borden, with less than a year of formal school, had witnessed the deaths ...

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 ...

In New York City, three of the largest milk companies, Borden’s Condensed Milk Company, Sheffield Farms, and U.S. Dairy Products Company, sold two-thirds of all the fluid, or drinking quality, milk in ...

He and his partner opened a plant in upstate New York in 1861, and prospered by supplying condensed milk to the Union Army. It didn’t change its name to Borden Dairy Co. until 1919. By 1930 ...

Gail Borden is widely considered the true pioneer behind sweetened condensed milk. The catalyst for his invention was a trip between London to New York on board a ship that carried cows for fresh ...