what were his other businesses?
Cotton plantation,  drugstore
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cotton plantation 
who was eli lilly? He was an American soldier, pharmacist, chemist, and businessman who founded the Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical corporation. when did he start his career as a soldier? 1861 did he face any war? American Civil War,  Battle of Hoover's Gap, Second Battle of Chattanooga and the Battle of Chickamauga when did the second war take place? 24 June 1863 between whom did the war happen? Between Union General William S. Rosecrans group and General Braxton Bragg’s Confederates
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Eli Lilly [SEP] Early business ventures
After the war, Lilly remained in the South to begin a new business venture. Lilly and his business partner leased a cotton plantation in Mississippi. Lilly traveled to Greencastle, Indiana, and returned with his wife, Emily, his sister, Anna Wesley Lilly, and son, Josiah. Shortly after the move the entire family was stricken with a mosquito-borne disease, probably malaria, that was common in the region at that time. Although the others recovered, Emily died on August 20, 1866, eight months pregnant with a second son, who was stillborn. The death devastated Lilly; he wrote to his family, "I can hardly tell you how it glares at me ...it's a bitter, bitter truth ...