The Man Behind The Brand - At School

Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Kraft, Maytag, Hertz, Kellogg, Gerber. Nowhere to be found. How many names are more famous than Howard Johnson? Milton Bradley? Oscar Mayer? But who were these folks? Let’s take a look at the men behind the famous names of America's colleges...

Included are mini-biographies of the founders of:

Baylor
Brown
Cornell
Duke
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
Purdue
Rice
Rutgers
Stanford
Tulane
Vanderbilt
Yale