William Cargill was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1784. He Sailed for New Zealand on the boat [[John Wickliffe]] on 24 November 1847, and arrived there the 23rd of March 1875 at what is now Port Chalmers, Otago. He was a soldier, merchant, coloniser and politician and had 2 sons, John (who became a politician too) and Edward. William Cargill died on the 6 August 1860.
Cargill's sales were reported to exceed $2,000 million during each of the past 4 years; this would place it alongside the top 30 or 40 US industrial corporations which are publicly held.
Cargill denied that it was a perpetrator of the soybean panic of 1973.
Cargill's international network in 1981 of 15 soybean crushing plants in the US and 6 overseas, ranging in capacity from 10,000 to 100,000 bushels a day, gave the company maximum flexibility and maneuverability in processing and trading soybeans.
William de Kergill granted a charter in favor of the Friars Preachers of Aberdeen in 1401 (Friars, 23), and Stmon Cargyl held part of Kethyk in 1457 and was tenant of Park of Newbyhhyn, 1473 (Cupar-Angus, I, p.
The Cargile surname is a derivation of the Cargill's.
Donald Cargill was an eminent preacher of the Church of Scotland in the reign of Charles II.
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