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In 1856, Milo T. Gardner, Dexter M. Ferry, and Eber F. Church organized a small seed-growing company, M.T. Gardner & Company (also known as
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Kellogg and incorporated as C.C. Morse & Co. Charles Copeland Morse died abruptly in 1900, and his son Lester Morse took over the business. The 1906 earthquake demolished the firm's facilities, but they quickly moved to
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By the early 1900s, the company was doing over $ 2,000,000 per year in business, and supplying seeds to 160,000 retail outlets. Ferry built a new warehouse, and by 1890 was doing over a million and a half dollars in business annually.
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Ferry bought out
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is a supplier of seeds, and was at one time the largest such company in the world. It is currently part of Green Garden
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