HISTORY AND 



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Elgin, Illinois. Borden's Condensed Milk factories today num- 

 ber upwards of fifty, extending from Maine to Washington State 

 as well as into Canada. The New York Condensed Milk Com- 

 pany was incorporated in New Jersey in 1860 and in New Jqrk 

 in 1870. This company was succeeded by Borden's Condensed 

 Milk Company which was incorporated in New Jersey in 1899. 

 In the sixties of the last century, the Anglo-Swiss Con- 

 densed Milk Company was organized in Switzerland under the 

 leadership of Charles A. Page, then United States Consul at 

 Zurich, Switzerland, and his brother George H. Page, and with 

 the assistance of Swiss and Eng'Hsh capital. The first factory 

 of that company was built and operated in 1866 at Cham, Lake 



Fig*. 4. Factory of Borden's Condensed Milk Co., Randolph, IT. 7. 



Zug, Switzerland, under the direction of George H. Page, who 

 was its president until 1808, when he died. 



This company prospered and grew rapidly in Europe. In 

 t ; he eighties of the last century it invaded the United States, 

 where it built and operated several large factories in New York, 

 Wisconsin and Illinois. The American factories were managed 

 by David Page and William B. Page, brothers of George H. 

 Page. In 1902 the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company sold 

 its entire American interests, factories and business, to Borden's 

 Condensed Milk Company. In 1904 the' Anglo-Swiss Condensed 

 Milk Company consolidated with Henry Nestle, of Vevey, Lake 

 Geneva, Switzerland, another successful manufacturer of con- 

 densed milk. The company which is now known as the Nestle- 

 Cham Condensed Milk Company, is operating some twenty large 



