It would then expand into the ice cream market by 1938 and would invest heavily into the popularity of the frozen treat, acquiring competitors in Chicago and outside of Illinois in Wisconsin and Ohio.
CHM, ICHi-020259īy 1920, the company was strong enough to acquire another significant local competitor, the Kee & Chapel Dairy Company, which ultimately landed Bowman with expanded operations across the city and nearly 300 commercial routes for milk distribution. Chicago passed its first pasteurization law in 1908, making Bowman’s practices for milk delivery the industry standard.Ī line of Bowman Dairy trucks and drivers outside of a Bowman Dairy building, Chicago, 1915. Their milk and cream would be delivered via rapid train in the morning to the bottling and distribution centers that Bowman operated across the city, where workers and deliverymen were ready for their daily routes. This was achieved by a partnership with farms in the Chicago suburbs. One of the many factors that brought the company success was its pioneering efforts in delivering pasteurized milk and cream by 1899. Workers bottling milk at the Bowman Dairy Company, Barrington, Illinois, 1914. A further partnership (and eventual buyout in 1898) with a local creamery further cemented Bowman’s presence in the city, as they became known for delivering freshly bottled milk across more than 30 commercial routes in the city, quickly developing a strong reputation amongst the city’s rapidly growing population. From that point on, all operations would be headquartered in Chicago, after the acquisition of a local operator, the Jersey Milk Company. Louis operation for $110,000, which, adjusted for inflation, is just over $3.4 million in 2022. By 1891, company leadership consolidated by selling the St. The company began in 1874 under Johnston R. The kings of the Chicago dairy industry were undoubtedly the operators behind the Bowman Dairy Company, who were the largest distributors of milk in the city through the first half of the twentieth century. Milkman making a delivery for the Bowman Dairy Company using a horse-drawn milk delivery wagon on a residential street, Chicago, 1914. And while Chicago’s strongest bovine association has been to the Union Stock Yard, the dairy industry was also a lucrative entity across the city that employed thousands. January 11 is marked on the calendar as National Milk Day, commemorating the day the first glass bottled milk deliveries began en masse in the US, starting with the state of New York in 1878.
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