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In memoriam.


Brayton Wilbur, Jr., Chairman of Wilbur-Ellis, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , CA, passed away on March 24, 2006. Wilbur-Ellis is a leading international marketer and distributor of ag products and is one of the United State's largest distributors and retailers of crop inputs.

Wilbur was a graduate of the Thacher School, Yale University Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was  and Stanford University where he received his MBA MBA
abbr.
Master of Business Administration

Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business
Master in Business, Master in Business Administration
 in 1961. Shortly afterwards, he went to work for Wilbur-Ellis which had been founded in 1921 by his father, Brayton Wilbur.

After managing the company's Asian operations, Wilbur became executive vice president then followed his brother-in-law, Carter Thacher as president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Wilbur-Ellis in 1988.

His tenure at the company was marked by the expansion of the company through the acquisition of Tide Products, Willamette Seed Co., and John Taylor Fertilizers and Soilserv Inc. Employee population grew to 2,000 with 120 agricultural locations, 25 Connell Bros BROS Brothers
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. Offices and 11 feed mills.
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