23 Sept 2008 The Washburn Family of Livermore
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- Gold Medal Flour has been a household name in kitchens across the USA for almost a 150 years. The Gold Medal brand was first introduced by Cadwallader’s Minneapolis-based Washburn Crosby Company in 1880. It was just one of many accomplishments by Cadwallader and his nine extraordinary brothers and sisters, born in Livermore in the early 1800s. They founded banks, railroads, and mills, went to sea, served as Governors, and represented several states as Senators and Congressmen in Washington. Kerck Kelsey, great, great grandson of Cadwallader Washburn, discovered that other than a 1924 book on the Washburn family and a book about Cadwallader published in 1950, not much had been written about Cadwallader Washburn or the rest of the Washburn family. He set out to change that and has written a book entitled, Remarkable Americans,
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