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 Eli Lilly ( July 8 , 1838 – June 6 , 1898 ) was an American soldier , pharmacist , chemist , and businessman . He was the founder of the Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical corporation . Lilly enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War ; he recruited a company of men to serve with him in an artillery battery , was later promoted to colonel , and was given command of a cavalry unit . He was captured near the end of the war and held as a prisoner of war until its conclusion . After the war , he attempted to run a plantation in Mississippi , but failed and returned to his pharmacy profession after the death of his wife . Lilly remarried and worked in several pharmacies with partners before opening his own business in 1876 with plans to manufacture drugs and market them wholesale to pharmacies . 

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 His company was successful and he soon became wealthy after making numerous advances in medicinal drug manufacturing . Two of the early advances he pioneered were creating gelatin capsules to hold medicine and fruit flavoring for liquid medicines . Eli Lilly and Company was one of the first pharmaceutical firms of its kind ; it staffed a dedicated research department and put in place numerous quality @-@ assurance measures . 

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 J.H. Whitney & Company was founded by John Hay Whitney and his partner Benno Schmidt . Whitney had been investing since the 1930s , founding Pioneer Pictures in 1933 and acquiring a 15 % interest in Technicolor Corporation with his cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney . By far , Whitney 's most famous investment was in Florida Foods Corporation . The company , having developed an innovative method for delivering nutrition to American soldiers , later came to be known as Minute Maid orange juice and was sold to The Coca @-@ Cola Company in 1960 . J.H. Whitney & Company continues to make investments in leveraged buyout transactions and raised $ 750 million for its sixth institutional private equity fund in 2005 . 

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 By 1898 , Lilly 's namesake company had a product line of 2 @,@ 005 items and annual sales over $ 300 @,@ 000 ( $ 7 @,@ 736 @,@ 400 in 2009 chained dollars ) . Josiah Lilly inherited the company following his father 's death , and continued to build the company before passing it on to his own sons , Eli Lilly and Josiah K. Lilly Jr . Josiah and his two sons continued the philanthropy practiced by Lilly and later established the Lilly Endowment that in 1998 became the largest philanthropic endowment in the world in terms of assets and charitable giving ; it has since been surpassed but still remains in the top ten . The company played an important role in delivering medicine to the victims of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake . Lilly 's company has since grown into one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world , and under Lilly 's grandson 's leadership developed many new innovations , including the pioneering and development of insulin during the 1920s , the mass production of penicillin during the 1940s , and the promotion of advancements in the mass production of medicines . Innovation continued at the company after it was made a publicly traded corporation in 1952 , and it developed Humulin , Merthiolate , Prozac , and many other medicines . According to Forbes , Eli Lilly & Co. was the 229th largest company in the world and 152nd in the United States in 2007 , with a worth of $ 17 billion ( USD ) . It is the largest corporation and the largest charitable benefactor in Indiana . 

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 Lilly was an advocate of federal regulation of the pharmaceutical industry , and many of his suggested reforms were enacted into law in 1906 , resulting in the creation of the Food and Drug Administration . He was also among the pioneers of the concept of prescriptions , and helped form what became the common practice of giving addictive or dangerous medicines only to people who had first seen a physician . The company he founded has since grown into one of the largest and most influential pharmaceutical corporations in the world , and the largest corporation in Indiana . Using the wealth generated by the company , his son and grandsons created the Lilly Endowment to continue Lilly 's legacy of philanthropy . The endowment remains one of the largest charitable benefactors in the world . 
