The small staff of the Midland Chemical Company included (left to right) Julius Stark, Julius Burrow, Roscoe Dunham, Alfred Burrow, and Henry S. Cooper, a former mayor of Midland. The company produced bromine almost exclusively, until Dow decided to make bleach from the chlorine resulting as a by-product of the bromine process. Dow’s fellow investors were not very supportive of this activity, especially after he blew up a large electrolytic plant while testing his new operations. Julius Burrow (pictured above with bicycle) was injured in the explosion, and his partners insisted he cease those operations. Dow refused to abandon the idea and perfected the process on his own. Years later the process emerged as the primary activity of the Dow Chemical Company.