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Gail Borden Jr. (November 9 1801 – January 11 1874) was a native New Yorker who settled in Texas in 1829 where he worked as a land surveyor newspaper publisher and inventor; he is most known as the developer of condensed milk in 1853. Having returned to the New York area to market another product he set up factories for condensed milk in Connecticut and later in New York and Illinois. Demand was high for his product by the Union Army during the American Civil War.
