GAIL BORDEN

(Gail Borden Jr.)


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Gail Borden

I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.
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Borden invented some of the basic methods of preserving food and assuring uncontaminated food—especially with dairy products.

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Gail Borden
  • Born: November 9, 1801
  • Died: January 11, 1874
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: County Surveyor, Cartographer, Schoolteacher, Newspaper Owner, Soldier, Politician, Inventor, Businessman
Biography

Gail Borden Jr. was a native New Yorker who settled in Texas in 1829, where he worked as a land surveyor, newspaper publisher, and inventor. He created a process in 1853 to make sweetened condensed milk. Earlier Borden helped plan the cities of Houston and Galveston in 1836.