John Francis Queeny Founder of Monsanto
John Francis Queeny Founder of Monsanto

Biography of John Francis Queeny

Early Life

John Francis Queeny founder of Monsanto was a famous American businessman and entrepreneur. He was born in the year of 1859 on August 17th in Chicago in United States of America. He started his early education in his local town school when he was just 6 years of age. He started there for 5 years but he could not complete his education due to some issues. When he was just 12 years of age, he was forced by the great Chicago Fire to take a full time employment. As a result of this forced behavior, he had to take that job for 2.5 USD/week with Tolman and King.

Initial Career

As mentioned earlier, he couldn’t complete his study because he was forced for starting his career in a quite young age. After that, he moved in the year of 1897 to Saint Louis to work for a drug company named as Meyer brothers Drug Company.  That was one of the largest companies of pharmaceutical sector at those times. He started his career in that company as a chemical expert and got very good knowledge of the field just in a couple of years.

Founder of Monsanto

John Francis Queeny is widely credited as founder of Monsanto. After his initial career as a child labor, He worked in many companies at different ranks and with different people. His habit of changing the jobs for more than 25 years gave him a good knowledge of the field and exposure about that. The most interesting thing of his career was that, he just worked in pharmaceutical field and industry which led him to be the founder of Monsanto Company. After two years of joining the Meyer brothers company, he thought to start his own business. He purchased a sulfur refinery and for this purpose, he spent all the savings of his life. After two years of that, he founded Monsanto Company of chemicals.

Monsanto

Monsanto was founded by John Francis Queeny in the year of 1901. The company was founded by investing 5,000 by John and the main idea behind this company was to work for manufacturing of different chemicals. Very first chemical, this company started to produce was that of Saccharine. Generally Monsanto is a biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector company with its branches in more than 10 countries all over the world including Argentina, Brazil, Central America, India and Mexico. Presently this company has the 22,000 employees working with it and its head quarter is in Creve Coeur, Missouri in United States of America. The employee growth of Monsanto is about 4% with global revenue of 13.5 billion United States dollars. It was ranked firstly in the best place to work list in the year of 2000.

Death

He died on March 19th in the year of 1933. He was about 74 years of age at the time of his death and was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in Saint Louis.