John Fremont "Grandpa" McCullough

By colinbazzano
  • John Fremont Mucullough's Birth

    John Fremont Mucullough's Birth

    He was born in 1871 in Iowa.
  • Start of his Ice Cream Business

    Start of his Ice Cream Business

    He started working with the dairy business in 1911, only serving ice cream as a local business.
  • Start of Soft Serve Ice Cream

    Start of Soft Serve Ice Cream

    McCullough started, with his son, making a recipe for soft serve ice cream. When he came up with the best recipe, he sold it. It sold 1,600 cones for 10 cents each in only 2 hours.

  • First Soft Serve Ice Cream Stand

    McCullough started his first ice cream stand serving soft serve ice cream only in 1940 in Joilet, Illinois. He called it Dairy Queen.
  • Period: to

    Growth of Dairy Queen Locations

    Between 1947 and 1955 it went from 100 locations to 2,600 locations.

  • Death of McCullough

    He died of cerebral thrombosis

  • Current Day Locations

    There are about 6,000 Dairy Queen locations worldwide.