Gideon Daniel Searle (February 13, 1846 Randolph County, Indiana - January 22, 1917 Chicago, Illinois) was a druggist[1] and the founder of pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle, LLC.[2]
The company was founded in Omaha, Nebraska in 1888, moved to Chicago in 1910 before moving to Skokie, Illinois. The company was acquired by Monsanto in 1987 for $2.7 billion.[3] His father Herman Searle helped establish a Congregational church.[4]
References
edit- ^ "John Gideon Searle" (PDF). Retrieved 6 December 2019.
- ^ "Searle family". Forbes. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
- ^ Jensen, Trevor (November 6, 2007). "Daniel C. Searle: 1926 - 2007". The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
- ^ Ohio (1838). "Acts of a Local Nature Passed at the Session of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio".
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