John F. Queeny
American businessman
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founding of Monsanto Company
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…was founded in 1901 by John F. Queeny (1859–1933), a purchasing agent for a wholesale drug company, to manufacture the synthetic sweetener saccharin, then produced only in Germany. Queeny invested \$1,500 of his own money and borrowed another \$3,500 from a local Epsom salts manufacturer to launch his new company,…
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