Edmund mcilhenny biography
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Edmund mcilhenny biography
Edmund McIlhenny
American businessman ()
Edmund McIlhenny (; – 25 November ) was an American businessman and manufacturer who founded the McIlhenny Company, which was the first to mass produce Tabasco sauce.[1][2] While company legend attributes the invention of the sauce to McIlhenny, plantation owner Maunsel White is said by some to have been the first to cultivate and make a sauce from tabasco peppers in the United States, and gave the recipe and pepper pods to his friend McIlhenny.[3][4]
Biography
Born in Hagerstown, Maryland, in , Edmund McIlhenny moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, around , finding work in the Louisiana banking industry.
He was of Irish and Scottish descent.[5][6][7][1] He had acquired a small fortune and became an independent bank owner.[8]
On June 30, , he married Mary Eliza Avery.
They had eight children.
During the Civil War, McIlhenny fled with his in-laws,