Austen S. Cargill II
{{Short description|American businessman}}
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| name = Austen S. Cargill II
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| birth_name = Austen Stowell Cargill
| birth_date = {{birth year and age |1951}}
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| known_for = Heir of Cargill
| occupation = Businessman and rancher, director of Cargill
| education = University of Minnesota
Oregon State University
| nationality = American
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| children = 2
| parents = {{ubl|James R. Cargill|Mary Janet Cargill}}
| family = Cargill family
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Austen Stowell Cargill II (born 1951) is an American billionaire heir, businessman and rancher.[http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/article_dddc76fe-b5ac-531d-95e0-d22565dd8cea.html Cargill exec buys ranch from church], Bozeman Daily Chronicle, February 19, 2001
Biography
=Early life=
Austen Stowell Cargill II was born in 1951.{{cite news |last1=Solomon |first1=Brian |title=The Secretive Cargill Billionaires And Their Family Tree |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2011/09/22/the-secretive-cargill-billionaires-and-their-family-tree/ |accessdate=September 17, 2019 |work=Forbes |date=September 22, 2011}} He is the great-grandson of William Wallace Cargill, the founder of Cargill. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Minnesota. He went on to earn a doctorate from Oregon State University.{{cite web |title=Forbes profile: Austen Cargill, II. |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/austen-cargill/ |website=Forbes |accessdate=17 September 2019}}
=Career=
He joined Cargill as a marine biologist and joined its board of directors in 1995. He later served as a vice president until 2001. He was a board member of GalaGen, a NASDAQ-traded company that sold dietary supplements to treat gastrointestinal diseases, from 1999 to 2002 when it went bankrupt.{{cite web| url = http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2002/02/25/daily31.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130818081605/http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2002/02/25/daily31.html| archive-date = 2013-08-18| title = GalaGen sinks on Chapter 7 filing - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal}}
=Personal life=
In 2001, he bought the North Ranch in Paradise Valley, Montana, close to Antelope Butte. The ranch was formerly owned by the Church Universal and Triumphant. He goes ruffed grouse hunting in South Dakota.Laurence Monroe Klauber, Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind, Volume 1, University of California Press, 1972, p. 632 [https://books.google.com/books?id=ijblNZQrk_wC&pg=PA632] He lives in Livingston, Montana.David Frey, [http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/whos_the_richest_in_the_west/C559/L559/ Who’s the Richest in the West? For billionaire bucks, Wyoming wins.], New West, 10-05-09 He is divorced, and has two children.
Bibliography
- {{cite journal|url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2427.1985.tb00215.x/abstract |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2427.1985.tb00215.x |title=The role of lipids as feeding stimulants for shredding aquatic insects |date=1985 |last1=Cargill |first1=Austen S. |last2=Cummins |first2=Kenneth W. |last3=Hanson |first3=Boyd J. |last4=Lowry |first4=Robert R. |journal=Freshwater Biology |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=455–464 |bibcode=1985FrBio..15..455C |url-access=subscription }}
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Category:University of Minnesota alumni
Category:Oregon State University alumni
Category:People from Livingston, Montana
Category:Ranchers from Montana
Category:American billionaires