Henry Parsons Crowell (1855–1944) was an American businessman, 1901 founder of the

Quaker Oats Company The Quaker Oats Company, known as Quaker, is an American food conglomerate based in Chicago. It has been owned by PepsiCo since 2001. History Precursor miller companies In the 1850s, Ferdinand Schumacher and Robert Stuart founded oat mills. S ...

and a

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.Musser, Joe (1997). ''The Cereal Tycoon''. Moody Press. , p.3, 154.

Career

As the founder of the

, Henry Parsons Crowell helped guide the eating habits of Americans, and in the process helped to create new methods of marketing and merchandising. Crowell spent much of his life in business and philanthropy. For 40 years he was the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the

Moody Bible Institute Moody Bible Institute (MBI) is a private evangelical Christian Bible college founded in the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois, US by evangelist and businessman Dwight Lyman Moody in 1886. Historically, MBI has maintained positions that have i ...

. The Henry Parsons Crowell and Susan Coleman Crowell Trust carefully states that the purpose of their personal family Trust is to fund the teaching and active extension of the doctrines of

evangelical Christianity Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide Interdenominationalism, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being "bor ...

Legacies and contributions

Crowell donated over 70 percent of his wealth to the

Crowell Trust The Crowell Trust (full name: The Henry Parsons Crowell and Susan Coleman Crowell Trust) is a charitable foundation in the United States which states that it "is dedicated to the teaching and active extension of the doctrines of Evangelical Christi ...

. The

named the 12-story Crowell Hall building after him.History of Moody Bible Institute
/ref> He was regarded as one of the most respected

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businessmen in the early 20th century in the US.

Bibliography

Musser, Joe (1997). ''The Cereal Tycoon''. Moody Press. . Day, Richard Ellsworth, "Breakfast Table Autocrat The Life Story of Henry Parsons Crowell". Moody Press, Chicago, 1946.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Crowell, Henry Parsons American food company founders American evangelicals 1855 births 1943 deaths Quaker Oats Company 19th-century American people 20th-century American businesspeople American philanthropists