History AND DEVELOPMENT 21 
Elgin, Wlinois. Borden's Condensed Milk factories today num- 
ber upwards of fifty, extending from Maine to \Washineton State 
as well as into Canada. ‘The New York Condensed Milk Com- 
pany was incorporated in New Jersey in 1860 and in New York 
in 1870. This company was succeeded by Borden's Condensed 
Milk Company which was incorporated in New Jersey in 1809. 
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 English 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, N. Y. 
Zug, Switzerland, under the direction of George H. Page, who 
was its president until 1898, when he died. ; 
This company prospered and grew rapidly in Europe. In 
the eighties of the last century it invaded the United States, 
where it built and operated several large factories in New York, 
Wisconsin and JIlinois. The American factories were managed 
by David Page and Wilham [. 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 Tlenry 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 
