Edward Mabry, born Edward Loughlin Mabry in 1897, was an American author, poet, and chemical tycoon. He died in 1989, aged 91.

Chemical tycoon

During World War I Edward Mabry joined the Vick Chemical Company, founded by Lunsford Richardson in 1898. Vicks today is best known for its VapoRub, DayQuil, and NyQuil brands, and it was once home to Icy Hot and Oil of Olay as well. In 1948, after 32 years with the company in sales and advertising, Mabry was named President. In 1957 he also became chairman of the board of directors. Vicks became Richardson-Vicks after merging with Richardson Merrell Inc., and in 1985 was sold to Procter & Gamble, where it remains as a brand and product division. Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Franz... 50g Vicks VapoRub. ... Vicks DayQuil is a medicine designed to help relieve many symptoms of a cold that is to be taken orally in either liquid or LiquiCap (capsule) form, during the day. ... NyQuil LiquiCaps NyQuil, produced by the Vicks company, is the brand name of a family of cold medicine designed to help relieve many symptoms of the common cold. ... Icy Hot is a trademark of the company Chattem Inc. ... Oil of Olay is a Procter & Gamble brand, a facial moisturizer skin care product. ... Procter & Gamble Co. ...

Mabry the writer

In addition to his achievements in the business world, Mabry wrote eighteen books, among them collections of poetry and sayings. His first book, Maybryana, was a cinquain-centric book of poetry. It was followed the next year by Maybryettes, a sequel. Further titles included Elm Leaves, Elm Leaves Keep Falling, Sail On! and The Velvet Touch. All 18 were published in the United States by Pond-Ekberg. In poetry, a cinquain or quintain is a five line stanza, varied in rhyme and line, usually with the rhyme scheme ababb. ...

References

• Obituary, The New York Times February 5 1989.
• To Amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 : US Government Printing Office 1954
• Dyer, Davis - Rising Tide : Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter & Gamble, Harvard Business School Press 2004, ISBN 1-59139-147-4
• Mabry, Edward L. - Maybryana, Pond-Ekberg 1977, LCCN 917800
• Richardson, H. Smith - The Early History and Management Philosophy of Richardson-Merrell, 1975
• Swasy, Alecia - Soap Opera: The Inside Story of Procter & Gamble, Times Books 1993, ISBN 0-671-89781-0

External links

• Pond-Ekberg
• Procter and Gamble history page
• New York Times obituary article