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Whitney Duncan MacMillan
William Duncan MacMillan (July 5, 1930 - October 31, 2006) was an American businessman, a director of Cargill. He is not to be confused with Whitney MacMillan, William's first cousin, born in 1929. Early life He was born on July 5, 1930, the son of John H. MacMillan, Jr. and Marion Dickson. He graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1953 and maintained his relationship with the university as a member of the board of trustees and with philanthropic gifts to fund scholarships and build the W. Duncan MacMillan Hall. Career MacMillan was a board member of Cargill for three decades. He wrote the MacMillan-Cargill family history and led several companies, some of which he established himself. Personal life MacMillan married twice. His first wife, Sarah Stevens, died in 1995. They had four daughters, Sarah MacMillan of California, Katherine Tanner of Florida, and Lucy Stitzer and Alexandra Daitch, both of Connecticut, all of whom survived him. He was also survi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jupiter, Florida
Jupiter is the northernmost town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. According to the 2020 Census, the town had a population of 61,047 as of April 1, 2020. It is 84 miles north of Miami, and the northernmost community in the Miami metropolitan area, home to 6,012,331 people in a 2015 Census Bureau estimate. Jupiter was named the 9th Best Southern Beach Town to live in by ''Stacker Newsletter'' for 2022, was rated as the 12th Best Beach Town in the United States by ''WalletHub'' in 2018, and as the 9th Happiest Seaside Town in the United States by ''Coastal Living'' in 2012. History The area where the town now sits was originally named for the Jobe Indians, Hobe Indian tribe which lived at the mouth of the Loxahatchee River and whose name is also preserved in the name of nearby Hobe Sound. A mapmaker misunderstood the Spanish spelling ''Jobe'' of the native people name ''Hobe'' and recorded it as ''Jove''. Subsequent cartography, mapmakers further misunderstood this to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cargill
Cargill, Incorporated, is a privately held American global food corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1865, it is the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue. If it were a public company, it would rank, as of 2015, number 15 on the Fortune 500, behind McKesson and ahead of AT&T. Cargill has frequently been the subject of criticism related to the environment, human rights, finance, and other ethical considerations. Some of Cargill's major businesses are trading, purchasing and distributing grain and other agricultural commodities, such as palm oil; trading in energy, steel and transport; raising of livestock and production of feed; and producing food ingredients such as starch and glucose syrup, vegetable oils and fats for application in processed foods and industrial use. Cargill also has a large financial services arm, which manages financial risks in the commodity marke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John H
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hugh MacMillan
John Hugh Macmillan III (February 28, 1928 - April 23, 2008) was an American billionaire businessman. Early life He was born on February 28, 1928, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of John H. Macmillan Jr. and Marion Dickson, and grew up in Wayzata, Minnesota. He was educated at the Blake School, Berkshire School in Sheffield, Massachusetts, West High School, and the University of Minnesota. Career In 1955, Macmillan started working for Cargill as a grain merchant and held positions in Great Falls, Montana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Minneapolis. In 2007, ''Forbes'' estimated his net worth at $1.7 billion. Personal life His first wife was Susan Velie (1931-2003), with whom he had three children, John Hugh Macmillan IV, David Deere Macmillan, and Kate Macmillan Reed. She later married Henry W. Norton, and became Susan Velie Norton. He was married to Patricia A. Macmillan. He was survived by his nine children, John H. Macmillan IV (Louise), David Macmillan (Karen), Kate Reed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion MacMillan Pictet
Marion Hamilton MacMillan Pictet (October 17, 1932 - August 30, 2009) was an American heiress.Brian SolomonThe Secretive Cargill Billionaires And Their Family Tree ''Forbes'', 9/22/2011 She was a great-granddaughter of William Wallace Cargill, the founder of Cargill. Her father was John H. MacMillan She had two brothers John Hugh MacMillan and Whitney Duncan MacMillan. She lived in Hamilton, Bermuda, and she was divorced. In 2010, her estate was estimated to be worth approximately US$4.5 billion. She died in The Bahamas in August 2009. Her only daughter, Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer, is an equestrian. References 2009 deaths People from Hamilton, Bermuda American billionaires Cargill people 1932 births {{Bermuda-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wallace Cargill
William Wallace Cargill (December 15, 1844 – October 17, 1909) was an American businessman. In 1865, he founded Cargill, which by 2008 was the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue, employing over 150,000 people in 68 countries. Early life William Wallace Cargill was born on December 15, 1844, in Port Jefferson, New York. He was the third of seven children of Scottish sea captain William Dick Cargill, who had emigrated to New York in the late 1830s. His mother, Edna Davis, was a native of New York. In 1856, Cargill's parents relocated to Janesville, Wisconsin, to pursue an agricultural life. Career In 1865, William W. Cargill started a small grain-storage business in Conover, Iowa, which eventually grew to become Cargill, Incorporated. In 1867, he was joined by two of his younger brothers, Sam and Sylvester, in Lime Springs, Iowa, where Cargill built a grain flat house and opened a lumberyard. In 1875, another younger brother, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitney MacMillan
Whitney MacMillan (September 25, 1929 – March 11, 2020) was an American billionaire heir and businessman.Brian SolomonThe Secretive Cargill Billionaires And Their Family Tree ''Forbes'', 9/22/2011Brenda McDonaldBusinessman Whitney MacMillan to receive honorary doctorate from MSU-Bozeman Montana State University, March 26, 2002 He was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of his family business, Cargill, from 1976 to 1995. Early life Whitney MacMillan was born on September 25, 1929. He was the son of Pauline Whitney and Cargill MacMillan Sr., and the great-grandson of William Wallace Cargill, the founder of Cargill. He has one brother, Cargill MacMillan Jr. (1927–2011), and one sister, Pauline MacMillan Keinath.Mike HughlettObituary: Cargill MacMillan, 84, company heir '' The Star Tribune'', November 15, 2011 He graduated from Yale University. Business He was CEO of Cargill from 1976 to 1995, and the last family member to be CEO. During his tenure, Cargill's annua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Brown is one of nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Admissions at Brown is among the most selective in the United States. In 2022, the university reported a first year acceptance rate of 5%. It is a member of the Ivy League. Brown was the first college in the United States to codify in its charter that admission and instruction of students was to be equal regardless of their religious affiliation. The university is home to the oldest applied mathematics program in the United States, the oldest engineering program in the Ivy League, and the third-oldest medical program in New England. The university was one of the early doctoral-granting U.S. institutions in the late 19th century, adding masters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence" which he believed was responsible for revealing such a haven for him and his followers. The city developed as a busy port as it is situated at the mouth of the Providence River in Providence County, at the head of Narragansett Bay. Providence was one of the first cities in the country to industrialize and became noted for its textile manufacturing and subsequent machine tool, jewelry, and silverware industries. Today, the city of Providence is home to eight hospitals and List of colleges and universities in Rhode Island#Institutions, eight institutions of higher learning which have shifted the city's economy into service industries, though it still retains some manufacturin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930 Births
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Deaths
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