Alva Kinney

Alva Kinney was a Nebraska grain miller who organized the 1919 merger of four flour mills into Nebraska Consolidated Mills, the company that became Conagra.

Alva Kinney is credited with founding Nebraska Consolidated Mills in 1919 by combining four flour mills in Nebraska, with the company based in Omaha. Consolidation gave the mills more purchasing and selling scale against larger milling companies. Nebraska Consolidated Mills stayed a regional miller for decades before moving into branded products with the 1951 purchase of the Duncan Hines cake mix line, which it sold to Procter & Gamble in 1956. The company adopted the ConAgra name in 1971 and later grew into the branded food company now known as Conagra Brands. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).