Adolphus Williamson Green (January 14, 1843 – March 8, 1917) was an American attorney and businessman.
He was the co-founder of the National Biscuit Company (now known as Nabisco, owned by Mondelēz International) in 1898.
[2][8] Green was the co-founder of the American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company in 1890,[5][9] by merging forty bakeries across the Midwest.
[4] The merger of a hundred and fourteen bakeries led to the National Biscuit Company,[1] co-founded by Green alongside Philip Danforth Armour, a meatpacking magnate, and Senator Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois.
[4] Green first served as the general counsel of the National Biscuit Company, and later as the chairman of its board of directors.
[3] Under his leadership, the company marketed Uneeda biscuits, animal crackers and Oreos.
[1] Green encouraged his employees to buy stocks, refused to hire children in his factories, and provided affordable meals.
[3] They also maintained a country estate in Belle Haven, a neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut.