Meat+Packing+Industry

**Chicago's World's Fair 1893: **
 * //Meat Packing Industry// **

 Armour & Company...  Oscar Mayer Company... 
 * Along with his brothers, Philip Armour built Chicago's largest meatpacking company in 1867.
 * By the 1800s, during Armour's peak they we're able to process $17.5 million of meat.
 * Armour and Company not only was a pork operation but added dressed beef, and meat canning.
 * Like many other packers, Armour resisted trade unions.
 * Armour slaughtered more than 1.5 million animals and reached about $60 million annually.
 * Oscar Mayer entered the business of Armour & Co. in Chicago at age 14.
 * Oscar and his "wurstmacher" brother, Gottfried, leased the Kolling Meat Market which was a small retail story in Chicago.
 * The market was a huge success especially with bockwurst, liverwurst, & weiswurst.
 * Their success continued to grow & by 1895, the new market was flourishing due to the publicity efforts of Oscar.
 * Their business was so good that they made their delivieres by horse-drawn wagons instead of hand-carrying large orders to their customer's homes.

Links: "Armour & Co." //Encyclopedia of Chicago//. Chicago Historical Society, 2005. Web. 14 Dec. 2009. <[].> "Philip Armour and the Packing Industry." //Encyclopedia ofChicago//. Chicago Historical Society, 2005. Web. 14 Dec. 2009. <[]>. "Armour and Company." //Absolute Astronomy//. Web. 14 Dec. 2009. < [].> "Oscar Mayer." //Wikipedia//. Web. 16 Dec. 2009. < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Mayer >.

Hannah Bryant ( J ), Mandy Lark ( J ), & Diarra Butler ( J ). Period 3 WORLD'S FAIR!