Kitty Litter Inventor, Entrepreneur Dies

Edward Lowe, whose invention of a product he called Kitty Litter made cats more welcome household company and created a half billion dollar industry, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Sarasota, Fla. He was 75.

Adapting clay for use as a cat box litter made Lowe a millionaire many times over.

He sold his Kitty Litter operations for $200 million plus stock in 1990. It is now part of the Ralston Purina Co.