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Sylvester Graham more or less started the breakfast cereal industry. Sylvester Graham, (born July 5, 1794, West Suffield, Conn., U.S. and died Sept. 11, 1851 Northampton, Mass.)

American clergyman whose advocacy of a health regimen emphasizing temperance and vegetarianism found lasting expression in the graham cracker, a household commodity in which lay the origin of the modern breakfast-cereal industry. After working at a variety of odd jobs, Graham became a Presbyterian minister in 1826 but preached little. He is best known for his advocacy of unsifted, coarsely ground wheat (graham) flour and his invention of the graham cracker (1829).

At the height of his popularity, Graham lectured widely. He recommended a complete health regimen, including hard mattresses, cold showers, and a diet consisting of homemade bread (he was attacked once by a mob of bakers and butchers), rough cereals, fruits, and vegetables.

Inspired by Sylvester Graham, in pursuit of the healthful diet, Dr. James Caleb Jackson created the first breakfast cereal in 1863, which he called Granula. But it was far from convenient; it had to be soaked overnight before it was even possible to chew the dense, bran-heavy nuggets.

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Native Americans, the Kellogg Brothers just stumbled on to how to improve it for mass production and to get it thinner than mashing it in a stone bowl.

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William Keith Kellogg invented Kellogg cereals.

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Will Keith Kelloggs discovered the corn flakes by mistake in 1906. (they were the result of an experiment gone wrong).

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Dr Kellog, at his health spa.

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Will Keith Kellogg

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John Harvey Kellogg and his brother

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