Minnesota had been grinding wheat for fifteen years when Charles Pillsbury arrived in Minnesota in the year 1869. Pillsbury invested in a failing flour mill, risking almost all his money. He realized making the flour mill good again, that it would take some effort and some hard work. Charles then turned the mill around and made it a profitable business.
Charles Pillsbury climbed to the top in the late 1800s. He made Pillsbury Flour Company. Pillsbury Flour became the largest flour mill in the nineteenth