Frederick Louis Maytag II (January 8, 1911 – November 4, 1962) was President and, later, Chairman of the

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company. In the early 1940s, he and Robert E. Maytag (born 1923), both sons of

Elmer Henry Maytag Elmer Henry Maytag (September 18, 1883 – 20 July 1940) was the Maytag Corporation president starting in 1926. He also founded the Maytag Dairy Farms. Biography He was born on September 18, 1883, to Frederick Louis Maytag I and had as a broth ...

, created a cheese plant and storage caves on

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to take advantage of a process developed by

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researchers to make blue cheese using homogenized milk. He was married and had a son named Frederick Louis Maytag III.

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