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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.
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Josiah and Lilly
* Josiah K. Lilly Sr. ( Class of 1882 )-Father of Eli Lilly (' 07 ).
Before coming into the possession of Indianapolis, the land was owned by Purdue University, and by Josiah K. Lilly Jr. before that.
* Josiah K. Lilly Jr.
* Josiah K. Lilly Sr.
* Colonel Eli Lilly, founder of Eli Lilly and Company, as well as several of his descendants, including Josiah K. Lilly Sr., Josiah K. Lilly Jr., and Eli Lilly
Lilly enlisted in the Union Army at the start of the American Civil War, and his first child, Josiah, was born in 1861 while he was away.
Lilly and son Josiah K. Lilly, Sr. are on the right side of the doorway.
Other family members were also employed by the growing company ; Lilly's cousin Evan Lilly was hired as a bookkeeper and his grandsons, Eli and Josiah, were hired to run errands and perform other odd jobs.
Believing that it would be an advantage for his son to gain a greater technical knowledge, Lilly sent Josiah to attend Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1880.
In 1890, Lilly turned over the management his business to Josiah, who ran the company for several decades.
Colonel Eli Lilly ( right ) with son Josiah K. Lilly Sr. ( left ) and grandson Eli Lilly ( industrialist ) | Eli Lilly ( center )
Josiah and inherited
Having inherited the land from father Edmund, Josiah built his mansion on a farm called the " Lower Farm ," which had been in the family since 1635.
Josiah and company
* Manville B. and Josiah Ober 2003, A company of citizens: what the world's first democracy teaches leaders about creating great organizations.
Josiah Wedgwood ( 12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795 ) was an English potter, founder of the Wedgwood company, credited with the industrialisation of the manufacture of pottery.
* 1759 – Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
* May 1 – Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
In June 1791, Deacon and Judge Nathaniel Gray, Elisha Gray, Joel Hatch, Abram Raymond, Newcomb Raymond and James Raymond, visited these lands in the interest of the company as an exploring party, accompanied by Josiah Throop, chief of the corps who had surveyed the tract that and the preceding years.
Local industrialists held a meeting, chaired by John Josiah Guest, at the Castle Inn in Merthyr, to discuss the issue, and decided to request Parliamentary permission to form a company to build the railway.
The Elkingtons opened a new electroplating works in Newhall Street, in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham in 1841, and the following year Josiah Mason, a pen manufacturer, joined the firm and encouraged the Elkingtons to diversify their output, adding more affordable electroplated jewellery and cutlery to the large pieces the company had been producing.
Smith lived near Palmyra, New York, but boarded with the Hales in Harmony while he was employed in a company of men hoping to unearth buried treasure ( specifically a silver mine for Josiah Stowell, a farmer whose home still stands on the north side of the Susquehanna River on New York State Route 7 in Nineveh, New York, just west of Afton ).
In 1682, he was appointed chief of the East India Company's affairs at Surat and Bombay, while at the same time his namesake, stated to be unrelated by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Sir Josiah Child, was governor of the company at home.
Spode is a Stoke-on-Trent based pottery company that was founded by Josiah Spode ( 1733-1797 ) in 1770.
In Spode's similar " Felspar porcelain ", introduced on the market in 1821, felspar was an ingredient, substituted for the Cornish stone in his standard bone china body, giving rise to his slightly misleading name " Felspar porcelain ," to what is in fact an extremely refined stoneware comparable to the rival " Mason's ironstone ", produced by Josiah II's nephew, Charles James Mason, and patented in 1813 Spode's " Felspar porcelain " continued into the Copeland & Garrett phase of the company ( 1833-1847 ).
In a footnote, Turner was the man who introduced Josiah Wedgwood to Thomas Bentley in Liverpool, a friendship which led to the formation of the company that produced the famous pottery.
On August 26, 1861, while working for Josiah D. Whitney on the first California Geological Survey, William H. Brewer invited local San Jose preacher ( and Brewer's personal friend ) Laurentine Hamilton to join his company on a trek to a nearby summit.
Church was commissioned by the Governor of the Plymouth Colony, Josiah Winslow to form the first ranger company for King Philip's War.
Confronted by the dangers of Indian raids, Scott raised a company of volunteers in 1790 and joined Josiah Harmar for an expedition against the Indians.
Josiah and following
The first was the late 7th century Deuteronomistic reform of official Judean religion under king Josiah, who banned many elements of the old polytheistic cult from the Temple, and the sudden collapse of Assyria and the rise of Babylon to take its place ; the second was exile of the royal court, the priests and other members of the ruling elite following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem c. 586 BCE.
In search for an alternate route to California through Santa Fe, New Mexico, Josiah Gregg ( 1840 ), and Caprain Randolph B. Marcy ( 1845 ) surveyed trails that crossed Hemphill County, following the south bank of the Canadian River.
The following list of Karaite exilarchs, father being succeeded always by son, is given in the genealogy of one of these " Karaite princes ": Anan, Saul, Josiah, Boaz, Jehoshaphat, David, Solomon, Hezekiah, Hasdai, Solomon II " Likkute Kadmoniyyot ," ii.
He married Susannah Wedgwood, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood ( see above ), and they had the following children.
He and Nevill Josiah Aylmer Coghill ) were pursued by Zulu warriors and after experiencing great difficulty in crossing the swollen Buffalo River, during which time the Colour was unfortunately carried downstream, the two men were overtaken by the enemy and following a short but gallant struggle both were killed.
The total control of the community by the Church continued until 1733 when Josiah Ogden harvested wheat on a Sunday following a lengthy rainstorm and was disciplined by the Church for Sabbath breaking.
Though there was certainly a movement against goddess-worship at the Jerusalem Temple in the time of king Josiah, it did not long survive his reign, as the following four kings " did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh " ( 2 Kings 23: 32, 37 ; 24: 9, 19 ).
This unit, the First American Regiment was commanded until 1 January 1792 by Josiah Harmar of Pennsylvania, gradually turned into a Regular regiment known as the 1st Infantry in 1791, and in 1815 was it redesignated as the 3d Infantry in the reorganization of the army following the War of 1812.
Josiah and father's
So between 1775 and 1782, when his wife died in London, Josiah the younger moved between Longton and Cripplegate, London, where he was doubtless manager of the Fore Street warehouse under the guidance of William Copeland, his father's friend and London partner.
Josiah Wedgwood II ( 3 April 1769 – 12 July 1843 ), the son of the English potter Josiah Wedgwood, continued his father's firm and was Member of Parliament for Stoke-upon-Trent from 1832 to 1835.
Josiah and death
After her death, Josiah was married to Abiah Folger on July 9, 1689, in the Old South Meeting House by Samuel Willard.
The Book of Chronicles says that Jeremiah did write a lament on the death of King Josiah.
Such was the lust of the nation for false gods that after Josiah ’ s death, the nation would quickly return to the gods of the surrounding nations.
The event alluded to was generally held to be the death of Josiah ( or, as in the Targum, the death of Ahab at the hands of Hadadrimmon ).
In a 7 to 1 decision handed down on May 18, 1896 ( Justice David Josiah Brewer did not participate because of the death of his daughter ), the Court rejected Plessy's arguments based on the Fourteenth Amendment, seeing no way in which the Louisiana statute violated it.
Following his family's master's death, young Josiah was separated from his mother, brothers and sisters, when he was sold as property in an estate sale.
Located near Dresden, Ontario, in Canada, Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site includes the cabin that was home to Josiah Henson during much of his time in the area, from 1841 until his death in 1883.
Beginning with the death of Senator Josiah W. Bailey in 1946, and concluding with the election of B. Everett Jordan in 1958, no fewer than eight men served in the seat in a dozen years.
However, the passage over the ridge of hills which shuts in on the south of the great Jezreel Valley was blocked by the Judean army led by Josiah, who may have considered that the Assyrians and Egyptians were weakened by the death of the pharaoh Psamtik I only a year earlier ( 610 BC ), who had been appointed and confirmed by Assyrian kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal.
Josiah did not heed this warning and by both accounts his death was caused by meeting Necho at Megiddo.
); and in his dirges he bitterly laments the king's death, the fourth chapter of the Lamentations beginning with a dirge on Josiah ( Lam.
* ‘ The Sting of Death and Death Unstung, delivered in two Sermons, preached on the occasion of the death of the Lady Mildmay ,’ Boston, 1680, published by Hoar's nephew, Josiah Flint.
The aristocrats suppressed the attempted coup, putting the ringleaders to death and placing Amon's eight year old son, Josiah, on the throne.
In 1780, on the death of his long-time business partner Thomas Bentley, Josiah turned to his friend for help in running the business.
Josiah Dallas Dort ’ s death in 1923 sealed the fate of Dort Motors.
Almost half of his books were still in print at the time of his death, including his first book, Ploughshares Into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance.
After the death of President Josiah Bartlet's previous private secretary Mrs. Delores Landingham, Bartlet was extremely reluctant to come to terms with her death fully by hiring a permanent replacement.
In 1860, shortly after the death of his wife and newborn son, Brewer was invited by Josiah D. Whitney to become the chief botanist of the California Geological Survey.
The reaction which followed the death of Josiah ( 608 BC ) restored the old altars of Yahweh ; they survived the destruction of the temple in 586, and it is probable that after its restoration ( 520-516 BC ) they only slowly disappeared, in consequence partly of the natural predominance of Jerusalem in the little territory of Judaea, partly of the gradual establishment of the supremacy of the written law over custom and tradition in the Persian period.
After the death of his first wife in 1784, when Laura ( his eldest daughter ) was eight, he married Mercy Smith, the widow of Josiah Smith.
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