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Important dates in the history of King Milling
1890 - Superior Mill in Lowell, Michigan, U.S. files for bankruptcy and is purchased
by a corporation owned by Francis King, his son, Francis T. King, Charles McCarty
and Reuben Quick for $20,000. They named the company King Milling.
1896 - Forrest Mills, then owned by Charles Wisner, merges with King Milling and
Wisner gains some ownership of the company.
1900 - Francis King dies and Francis T. King becomes King Milling president.
1911 - Thomas Doyle purchases the company shares of Charles McCarty.
1927 - King Milling purchases Peckham Furniture Company, which at one time
was the largest sleigh manufacturer in the world. The Peckham operations were
converted into a poultry and livestock feed manufacturing facility headed by William Doyle, youngest son of Thomas Doyle.
1934 - Francis T. King dies. Charles Doyle is named president.
1940 - The Doyle family purchases the King family's shares of the company.
1943 - Charles Doyle, who suffered a paralytic stroke in 1936, dies in 1943. Young
er brother, William, is named president.
1943 - The King Milling's flour mill burns to the ground, and the company is unable
to produce flour for two years while a new mill is constructed.
1945 - The new mill opens, but 10 days later company president William Doyle dies
of a heart attack.
1945 - William Doyle's oldest son, King, who is serving in the U.S. Navy at the time
of his father's death, returns to Lowell to serve as company president at age 23.
Mid-1960s - King Milling is one of the first mills to convert from a bucket elevator
system for conveying flour to a more sanitary pneumatic system.
Late 1960s - King Milling develops and implements wheat heating process that
deactivates enzymes in the wheat, enhancing shelf life and improving other enduse characteristics.
1978 - King Milling becomes one of the first flour mills to apply color sorting tech
nology to wheat by installing a Sortex machine in its A Mill.
1995 - King Doyle and his brother, Mike Doyle, retire. King's son, Brian, becomes
company president; Mike's sons, Jim and Steve, become company vice-presidents.
2004 - A fifth floor is added to the original mill built by William Doyle and much of
the old milling equipment is removed and replaced. This addition increases milling capacity from 5,400 cwts to 7,500 cwts per day.
2010 - King Milling becomes the first flour mill in the world to become SQF certified.
2013 - A new mill, named the B Mill, is built in 2013, bringing King Milling's daily
white flour milling capacity to 12,500 cwts.
2015 - King Milling celebrates its 125th year in business.
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