Northrup, King & Company - Minneapolis, MN

“In 1884, Jesse Northrup and Charles P. Braslan started the company known as Northrup, Braslan & Co. …They believed in the hardiness, earliness, and productivity of northern grown seed, and they saw Minneapolis as a natural distributing point for a vast undeveloped but promising agricultural region. … In 1887, A. H. Goodwin joined the firm, and it was renamed Northrup, Braslan & Goodwin Co.  [After a serious fire] in 1896, a new company emerged called Northrup, King & Co.” --excerpts from Biographies of American Seedsmen & Nurserymen, by Marca Woodhams, 1999.

After many recent corporate mergers, the Northrup King (or NK) brand exists today as part of Syngenta Seeds.