Jeremiah Milbank (April 18, 1818 – June 1, 1884) American businessman, was a successful dry goods commission merchant, speculator in Texas territorial bonds, manufacturer, and railroad investor. His most successful business efforts were the New York Condensed Milk Company (1857, renamed the Borden Company in 1899) which he co-founded with inventor Gail Borden[1] and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway (1876) where he was a member of the executive committee of the Board of Directors.[2][3] Milbank was a founder and president of the board of trustees of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church at 31st. Street, New York City, and trustee of the Baptist's Rochester Theological Seminary (University of Rochester). The city of Milbank, South Dakota, which is the seat of Grant County, was founded in 1880 and named in his honor.[3] Among other interests, Milbank was in 1870 an original subscriber of the Metropolitan Museum of Art[4] and owned a box at the Metropolitan Opera.
- ^ Frantz, Joe B. (1951). Gail Borden: Dairyman To A Nation. University of Oklahoma Press.
- ^ Annual Report of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company. 1879. p. 5.
- ^ a b Cary, John W. (1981). The Organization and History of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company (Reprint of 1893 Chicago: Aikens and Cramer ed.). New York: ARNO Press.
- ^ "Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives "Subscriptions to the fund for 250,000 dollars - 1870".