Biography "This heading is used for four separate corporate entities: 1) a partnership organized in Paris, France, on April 21, 1801, with operations in the United States after 1802; it built its first gunpowder mills near Wilmington, Del., in 1802-04 and was renewed periodically until 1899, when the business was incorporated; 2) a Delaware corporation, inc. Oct. 23, 1899 and dissolved April 7, 1902, which acquired the assets of the 1801-99 partnership; 3) a second Delaware corporation, inc. Feb. 26, 1902, as the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Company, which on March 1, 1902, acquired all the assets of the 1899-1902 corporation as part of a refinancing and expansion plan and changed its name to E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company on May 8, 1902; in May 1903, it sold all its black and smokeless powder operations to a new intermediate holding company, the E.I. du Pont Company; on Aug. 1, 1903, it sold all the shares in the E.I. du Pont Company to the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company; the latter became the prime operating subsidiary, while E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company became a holding company; the 1902-1912 E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company was dissolved on Nov. 14, 1912, pursuant to an antitrust decree, leaving the E.I du Pont de Nemours Powder Company as the parent company; 4) a third Delaware corporation, properly "E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Incorporated", inc. Sept. 4, 1915; it purchased all the assets of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company in 1915 and became and remains the parent company of a multinational chemical firm." -- LCNAF
