Gail Borden

Did You Know?

Borden, Who Invented Milk Processing

Gained Success After Forty Year Struggle

Bainbridge Press, March 16, 1939

 

Was Editor, Typographer, inventor of Meat Biscuit, in Southwest;

Returned to Chenango Co. at 50, Gained Success

 

Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] today might not be one of the most prosperous villages in the East, it might not boast of having more persons with doctor's degrees than any other village under 2,400 in the U.S. were it not for the fact that a Chenango County lad born in what was then part of Jericho in 1801, had not kept constantly in his mind the fact that he was going to be a successful man.

 

Failure after failure haunted Gail Borden's projects through over thirty years of hard work, until, when long past fifty he succeeded in marketing successfully the first condensed milk, and thereby opened up a new field of income for the milk producing farmers of New York state. 

 

Milk processing today, is an infinitely more varied and greater industry than it was the year that Gail Borden and Jeramiah Milbank opened their new plant, and chemists in Bainbridge and other parts of the World have discovered milk usages undreamed of that day in 1869, but credit for the creation of the processed milk industry goes to the man who would not let a little thing like successive failures keep him from working and fighting for his dream of success, at an age when most people would have been willing to admit final failure.