Greencastle, Indiana ยท 1861
A Novel of War, Failure, and the Birth of Eli Lilly and Company
J.B. Fox
He wanted to make pure medicine. First he had to learn what purity costs. Greencastle, Indiana. 1861.
Colonel Eli Lilly, a pharmacist, served as a Union officer in the Civil War and in 1876 founded the pharmaceutical company in Indianapolis that still bears his name.