Sometimes we need the help of others to survive. Other times we need the help of others to learn or prosper. That’s why some of us donate blood or volunteer at schools and churches. Those who help us make it possible for us to view life in new and positive ways.
And sometimes, like a pint of blood from a stranger, the work of people we don’t know makes a big difference to us. There’s talk now about folks who aren’t rich being dishonest and lazy. And some say folks in other countries cannot be trusted. But if we look around us, and if we also look behind us, we may be surprised at what we find – because most of us are not rich and almost all are of foreign ancestry.
In the 1840s two brothers, James and William Horlick, were born near London, England. James Horlick had become a pharmacist by the time his younger brother immigrated in 1869 to the United States. In England, the elder Horlick worked for a firm that made baby food before in 1870 joining his brother in the United States.
James Horlick began working for the Mellin Company in Racine, Wisconsin, making food for infants. In 1873 the brothers started a company of their own to market a dried baby formula called Horlick’s Food that James Horlick had developed.
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