CARGILL Sylvester Smith b. 18 Dec 1848 Long Island, Queens, New York, USA d. 20 Dec 1913 , Hennepin, Minnesota, USA

1848 - 1913

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Birth	18 Dec 1848	Long Island, Queens, New York, USA
Gender	Male
Residence	1880	Northwood, Worth, Iowa, USA [1]
_UID	05FA7598DDFF4D5083C1736E64634E78373B
Died	20 Dec 1913	, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA [2, 3]
Person ID	I4979	Allen
Last Modified	1 Feb 2012

Father	CARGILL Captain William Dick, b. 12 Mar 1812, Orkney, , , Scotland , d. 24 Mar 1892, Janesville, Rock, Wisconsin, USA
Mother	DAVIS Edna E., b. 29 Apr 1813, New York, New York, New York, USA , d. 2 Aug 1887, Janesville, Rock, Wisconsin, USA
Family ID	F3053	Group Sheet

Family MURPHY Elizabeth H., b. Nov 1854, , , Wisconsin, USA , d. 18 Jul 1942, , Hennepin, Minnesota, USA

Children

	1. CARGILL Robert Guy, b. Abt 1878, , , Wisconsin, USA , d. 13 Nov 1933, , Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
	2. CARGILL Samuel S., b. Feb 1881, , , Iowa, USA , d. 28 Jan 1944, , Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
	3. CARGILL Helen S., b. Feb 1897, , , Minnesota, USA , d. Yes, date unknown

Last Modified 1 Feb 2012

Family ID F3056 Group Sheet

Notes

1865 - Sylvester S. Cargill, becomes independent of his brother's company “W.W. Cargill and Brother”, eventually establishing the Victoria Elevator Company in Minneapolis.
http://www.cargill.com/about/history/history_1865.htm

Sylvester Cargill, who has been running the Cargills' elevator at Winnebago, now became their manager for what seems to have been a separate operation from its early days. A cash book that begind on August 1, 1875 (the earliest extant financial record of any of the Cargill involvements), shows the operation as a going concern, headed by Sylvester but under the overall umbrella of “W.W.Cargill.” This cash book chronicles innumerable trades in wheat, barley, corn, hides, salt, wool and pork. Sylvester, semiautonomous at this point, later became wholly independent of the other Cargill brothers, forming his own firm, the Victoria Elevator Company, which expanded into Minnesota and the Eastern Dakotas. Victoria grew to substantial size and from its Minneapolis headquarters became a well-known middle-level grain firm.
Exerpt - Cargill, Trading the World's Grain, by Wayne G. Broehl, pg 22. [4]

[S173] 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2005. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of JesusChrist of Latter-day Saints Â© Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve,Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limite;).
[S170] Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002, Ancestry.com, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2001.Original data - State of Minnesota. Minnesota Death Index,1908-1002. Minneapolis, MN, USA: Minnesota Department ofHealth.Original data: State of Minnesota. Minnesota Death Index, 19;).
[S171] Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002, Ancestry.com, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2001.Original data - State of Minnesota. Minnesota Death Index,1908-1002. Minneapolis, MN, USA: Minnesota Department ofHealth.Original data: State of Minnesota. Minnesota Death Index,).
[S172] Cargill, Trading the World's Grain, Wayne G. Broehl, (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), 22. (Reliability: 3).