Colonel Eli Lilly
The Colonel Eli Lilly (1839 - June 6th, 1898) is a soldier, pharmacist-chemist, and industrialist of the United States. He is the founder of the pharmaceutical company éponyme. Eli Lilly and Compagny is today one of the most important multinationals of the pharmaceutical sector, with specialities in the majority of the registers of medicine. In 2005, the company carried out a sales turnover of 14,6 billion dollars.
Born with Baltimore in Maryland, Lilly moves young person in Kentucky. Its family elects then residence with Greencastle in Indiana in 1852. He studies pharmacology with Lafayette with the Good Samaritan Pharmacy , then once graduate in chemistry and pharmacy, a pharmacy in Indianapolis in 1860 opens.
Lilly fights in the northern army during the American Civil War, recruiting and organizing the 18th Battery , the light artillery of Indiana, with the rank of captain of August 1862 at the winter 1863. Provided with its only experiment of militiaman with Lafayette, he is regarded by several of his artillerists as too young person and excited exerting the command. In spite of its initial inexperience, he becomes a qualified chief of artillery and its unit takes part in several important battles, of which that of Chickamauga. Lilly resigns then to become colonel of cavalry, and is captured by Nathan B. Forrest in Alabama in 1864. Released on word, it returns at his place.
It creates two other companies, of which a cotton plantation in the Mississippi, before returning to its interest first for the pharmaceutical sector. In 1869, it opens a pharmacy in Paris in Illinois, before returning to Indianapolis in the middle of the years 1870. In 1879, Lilly proposes the creation of a public company of water provision to meet the needs for the city. Indianapolis Water Company is the fruit of this idea. Influenced by the untimely death of his wife of the Malaria, Lilly creates a pharmaceutical company in May of 1876. It has at the beginning only three employees, of which his/her son Josiah 14 years old, and 1400 $ of working capital. Its first products are gelatin pills and capsules. Making profitable its experiment treatments used during the civil war, Lilly starts to produce drugs answering a high standard of quality, contrasting with the remedies of very widespread charlatans then.
In 1892 Lilly the inn of Wawasee builds on the lake Wawasee in Indiana. Before colonel Lilly does not die of cancer in 1898, its company has a catalog of 2.005 products and the annual sales amount to 300.000 $.
Lilly is buried in the cemetery Crown Hill in Indianapolis. Its tomb is not far from that of former President Benjamin Harrison.
The museum of the American Civil War in Indianapolis bears its name. It opened in October 1999.
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