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HILLYARD, Lorenzo O.
HILLYARD, Lorenzo O. (Wayne County, IA, Sept. 4, 1874--Jan. 3, 1935). Hillyard was educated in rural schools and then attended a commercial college in Omaha, Nebraska. He moved to St. Joseph, Missouri in 1894 and was employed by Standard Oil Company as a wagon driver and a traveling specialty salesman for six years. From 1898 to 1901, he was a general tank wagon superintendent for the Standard Oil Company.
He resigned in 1901 and moved to Dubuque where he established a chemical manufacturing company at Second and Locust STREETS. In 1905 he incorporated the company as the MIDLAND CHEMICAL LABORATORIES. He served as the president of the company until his death. The company that he founded prospered AS one of the nation's largest disinfectant and germicide companies.
Hillyard was the president of the Central Broadcasting Company which operated WOC Radio Station from Davenport, Iowa and WHO Radio Station from Des Moines.
As a boy, Hillyard worked as a newsboy. Remembering those day, he made an annual practice of distributing dollar bills among the newsboys of the Telegraph Herald. (1)
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Source:
1. "Caring for the Needy," Telegraph Herald, Deember 21, 2004, p. 1
Goodspeed, Weston Arthur, History of Dubuque County, Iowa. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association, 1911, p. 610
"C. F. Hillyard," Citizens Historical Association of Indianapolis, Jan. 27, 1940, Vertical Files, Carnegie-Stout Public Library
