Lyndon Marrs King (S&B 1910)
Yale University. Skull and Bones.
President, Chairman of the Board, Northrup, King & Co. (Minneapolis).[2] (Founded in 1884 by Jesse E.Northrup, Charles E. Braslan and assistance from Colonel William S. King, grandfather of Lyndon Marrs King S&B 1910)[10]
1997, Northrup King became a subsidiary of Syngenta, where it became known as the NK brand.
1990s, Sandoz, Ltd. went through several corporate mergers and reorganizations.
In 1968, Northrup, King and Co. offered its first public stock shares. The company grew rapidly after it went public, but in 1975 it saw significant losses. The next year, the company was purchased by a Swiss pharmaceutical company called Sandoz, Ltd. Sandoz bought the company for more than twice its book value, renamed it Northrup King, and invested heavily in research.[10]
1960s, Northrup, King and Co. vice president Allenby White fought for patent protection for agricultural crops that were more difficult to hybridize. This expanded protection was initially rejected by the United States Congress but passed in 1970. It helped companies including Northrup, King and Co. but hurt horticulturists and small farmers.[10]
1930’s, Corn hybrids became a major part of the company’s [Northrup, King & Co] business. In 1938, Northrup, King and Co. partnered with the University of Minnesota to test the company’s hybrid corn varieties at Femco Farms in the Red River Valley. Their hybrids were bred to have the best traits of different genetic strains. They were also very profitable, because the hybrid breeding process meant that the hybrids were intellectually protected even without patents.[10]
^Late Nineteenth/early twentieth century … Catalogs frequently featured impossibly large flowers or vegetable plants so overladen with produce that in reality they would have collapsed. As we have seen before (chapter 5), regulation was poor, so outrageous claims were often made, particularly on behalf of varieties bred by the producer of the catalogue itself. Reputable companies made great show of their honesty and plain talking to se them firmly apart from the cowboys; in America, Northrup King joined the Burpee in this respect. Company founder Jesse E. Northup even produced a fifteen-page booklet entitled ‘Seed Truth” extolling his company’s values and wittingly satirizing the dishonesty and exaggeration of much of his competition.[6]
Married Helen D Abbott, Elizabeth P Washburn.[2]
1910 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Died 3 Jul 1969, from Not Known. Age 82.[4]
Note: Father Preston King, Died 18 Jan 1914, Aged 56. Died young ????
Business Partner … Jesse E. Northrup, Died 3 Feb 1915, Aged 57. Died young and just after the death of Preston King died, father of S&B 1910.[9]
FYI - Not sure if connected, however a Major Charles P. Braslan, died in Dec 1910 (same year as King S&B 1910 graduation). Age Not Known, however he married in Nov 1901 to Mrs Adella Pieper.
[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
[5] - FYI - Wiki Northrup-King
[[6] - Book - Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding By Noel Kingsbury] (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dGSj-CFxk-QC&lpg=PA180&ots=dGhlz-BXmR&dq=Jesse%20E.%20Northrup&pg=PA180#v=onepage&q=Jesse%20E.%20Northrup&f=false)
[7] - Find a Grave - Lyndon Marrs King (S&B 1910)
[[8] - Father of Lyndon Marrs King Sr] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89770390/preston-king
[[9] - Find a Garve - Business Partner - Jesse e northrup] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122268570/jesse-e-northrup
[[10] - MNOPEDIA - Northrup, King and Company] https://web.archive.org/web/20190403045702/https://www.mnopedia.org/group/northrup-king-and-company
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