Monsanto: Commercialized Population Control From a pipe dream of the son of two immigrants was born one of the largest chemical engineering companies of our time. John Francis Queeny was born in Chicago in August 1859. It is hard to believe that a man with only six years of public school education created such a vast empire. In 1871 the Queeny family was devastated by the Great Chicago Fire, the buildings that her father owned and rented were, of course, completely destroyed, thus putting an end to the Queeny family's rather comfortable life. John was forced to drop out of school and get a job. After poor results he finally found work at the pharmaceutical company Tolman and King for 2.50 a week. (Forrestal 12). After several years of struggling to climb the corporate ladder, he accepted a position as a buyer for the IL Lyons pharmaceutical company in New Orleans. In 1894 he went to New York as a sales manager for Merck & Company. In retrospect, it can be said that 1896 and 1897 marked substantial milestones, all related to the development of what is now known as the Monsanto Company. In 1896 John F. Queeny married Miss Olga Monsanto, granddaughter of Don Emmanuel Mendez de Monsanto, an aristocrat who had been knighted by both Queen Isabella II of Spain and King Frederick VII of Denmark. Described as kind, graceful and charming, she provided a delicate balance between Old World business and the New World of chemical engineering. Years after her death, an executive who knew the family well said, "I think that wonderful woman's influence on that rugged Irishman was one of the cornerstones of the company's success." (Forrestal 13)In 1897 a son, Edgar Monsanto Queeny, was born. John F. Queeny would “found a… paper medium… the industrial revolution worked for the assembly line. Mother Nature is far from an assembly line pumping out the same product over and over again and should be proud of her diversity of life and organisms; not optimized for maximum profit. In the years to come, Social Darwinism will resolve these issues and only the strong will survive; or at least we should hope so. Works CitedDefinition PCBs. Network. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Polyclorinated+biphenyls Forrestal, Dan. “Faith Hope and $5,000.” New York. Simon and Schuster. 1977. PrintHealth Effects of PCBs. http://www.epa.gov/osw/hazard/tsd/pcbs/pubs/effects.htm.Michael Grunwald. The Washington Post - Washington, DC January 1, 2002 A.01The Inside Story: Anniston, Alabama. Network. http://www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/dirtysecrets/annistoninapprofondimento/sistenza.asp. Chemical Industry Archives