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W. K. Kellogg: Founder of the Kellogg Company

W. K. Kellogg began by selling brooms in Battle Creek, helped manage his brother's sanitarium and founded the Kellogg Company, then endowed the Kellogg Foundation with $66 million in 1934.

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C. W. Post: Founder of Post Consumer Brands

C. W. Post, a former Springfield, Illinois farm-machinery inventor with a plow, harrow and hay-stacker patent, founded the company that became Post Consumer Brands.

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John Harvey Kellogg: Battle Creek Sanitarium Director and Cornflakes Developer

John Harvey Kellogg ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium and developed Granose and cornflakes as breakfast foods, though he also co-founded the eugenics-promoting Race Betterment Foundation.

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