Elbridge Amos Stuart (born September 10, 1856, in Guilford County, North Carolina; died January 14, 1944, in Los Angeles, California) was an American milk industrialist and creator of Carnation evaporated milk and its famous slogan, that it came from "Contented Cows". Carnation diversified its product portfolio after the 1950s and was acquired by Nestlé in 1984