All about coffee by William H. Ukers

1911. Durand & Kasper merged, 1921, with Henry Horner & Co. and McNeil &

Higgins into the Wholesale Grocers Corporation. Samuel A. Downer founded the Excelsior Mills (Downer & Co.) in 1853. Sidney O. Blair entered the employ of the company in 1871. E.B. Millar & Co. took over the business in 1878, incorporating under that name in