Gideon Daniel Searle (February 13, 1846
Randolph County, Indiana
Randolph County is a county located in the central section of U.S. state of Indiana, on its eastern border with Ohio. As of 2010, the population was 26,171. The county seat is Winchester.
History
The Indiana General Assembly authorized the ...
- January 22, 1917
Chicago, Illinois
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was a druggist
and the founder of pharmaceutical company
G.D. Searle, LLC.
The company was founded in
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 39th-largest cit ...
in 1888, moved to
Chicago
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in 1910 before moving to
Skokie, Illinois
Skokie (; formerly Niles Center) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, neighboring the City of Chicago's northern border. Its population, according to the 2020 census, was 67,824. Skokie lies approximately north of Chicago's do ...
. The company was acquired by
Monsanto
The Monsanto Company () was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best known product is Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide, developed in th ...
in 1987 for $2.7 billion.
His father Herman Searle helped establish a Congregational church.
References
1846 births
1917 deaths
Businesspeople from Chicago
People from Randolph County, Indiana
Pharmaceutical company founders
American company founders
19th-century American businesspeople
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