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Founder of Hill Dairy started as Sanitarium teamster

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dc.date.accessioned 2019-09-25T15:48:33Z
dc.date.available 2019-09-25T15:48:33Z
dc.date.issued 1904-00-00
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.willardlibrary.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/1000000532
dc.description Addison Hill, who lived at 1600 C Drive S. in 1979, submitted this photograph of Sanitarium teamsters with their wagons and horses in 1904. In her column "Looking Back," published Aug. 5, 1904, Amy South wrote that "The Sanitarium's truckers hauled anything and everything that needed moving." Included in the photograph was Hill's father, Lester Hill, and grandfather. Lester Hill was one of the first employee's of W.K. Kellogg's new cereal factory, where me met his future wife. After leaving Battle Creek to seek their fortunes out West, the couple returned and purchased an 80-acre farm in 1917. In 1920, Lester Hill established the Lester Hill Dairy, which he sold in 1929. It later became the Battle Creek Dairy and was eventually sold to Ashley Dairy. en_US
dc.format.medium 4x5 BW negative
dc.subject sanitarium Adventist Kellogg dairies en_US
dc.title Founder of Hill Dairy started as Sanitarium teamster en_US
dc.type Image en_US
dc.description.envelope BATTLE CREEK SANITARIUM TEAMS AND WAGONS FROM LOOKING BOOK, BY AMY SOUTH 8/5/79 ABOUT 1904
dc.description.photographer Submitted
dc.description.taxonomy Business/Industry|Local Business History en_US


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