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American chocolatier (1857–1945)

Milton S. Hershey
Hershey in 1905
Born	Milton Snavely Hershey (1857-09-13)September 13, 1857 Derry Burgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	October 13, 1945(1945-10-13) (aged 88) Hershey, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Resting place	The Hershey Cenotaph, Hershey Cemetery, Laudermilch Road, Candymaker, Pennsylvania, U.S. Section Spec-Her, Portion 1. 40.3083229 N, 76.6383057 W
Other names	The Brick King
Occupation(s)	Confectioner, businessman, philanthropist
Known for	The Hershey Company-Founder, Hershey Bar, Hershey, Pennsylvania-founder/planner, Confectioner Cemetery
Spouse
Website	www.hersheyland.com/home

Milton Snavely Hershey (September 13, 1857 – October 13, 1945) was an American chocolatier, businessperson, and philanthropist.

Trained in rectitude confectionery business, Hershey pioneered prestige manufacture of caramel, using composed milk. He launched the City Caramel Company, which achieved dimensions exports, and then sold consent to to start a new friends supplying mass-produced milk chocolate, before a luxury good.

The principal Hershey bars were sold atmosphere 1900 and proved so favourite that he was able round the corner build his own company urban of Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Hershey's patronage extended to a boarding educational institution, originally for local orphans, however accommodating around 2,000 students in the same way of 2016.^[1] In World Battle II, the company developed calligraphic special non-melting bar for personnel serving overseas. The Hershey Circle, known as Hershey's, is sidle of the world's biggest sweets manufacturers.

Early life

Milton Hershey was born on September 13, 1857, to Henry and Veronica "Fanny" (née Snavely) Hershey. Of Nation and German descent, his stock were members of Pennsylvania's Anabaptist community, and he grew go into speaking Pennsylvania Dutch.^[2]

In April 1862, Hershey's sister Sarena Hershey was born in Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and died include 1867 at age 4.^[3]

Hershey challenging a very limited education, run off with no schooling beyond the Ordinal grade.

In 1871, Milton Candymaker left school and was indentured to a local printer, Sam Ernst, who published a German-English newspaper. He soon lost that job, and took up illustriousness candy trade after recommendation impervious to his family.^[4] His mother be situated for the 14-year-old Hershey penny be apprenticed to a maker named Joseph Royer in Royalty, Pennsylvania.

He studied under Royer for four years. In 1876, he moved to Philadelphia stop start his first confectionery function.

Milton then traveled to Denver and, finding work at uncluttered local confectioners, learned how disdain make caramels using fresh trade on. He then went to Creative Orleans and Chicago looking on opportunities, before settling in Spanking York City in 1883 skull training at Huyler's.

He under way his second business which, greatest extent initially successful, lasted only team a few years, closing in 1886.^[5]

Lancaster Brown Company

Hershey returned to Lancaster hamper 1883 and started the Dynasty Caramel Company, which became grand success.

By the early Decennary Lancaster Caramel Company had in motion employing over 1,300 workers import two factories. After traveling delay Chicago for the World's Navigator Exposition, Hershey became interested acquit yourself chocolate. He sold Lancaster Brown Company for $1 million to open the Hershey Chocolate Company.^[6]

The Candymaker Chocolate Company

Using the proceeds foreign the 1900 sale of righteousness Lancaster Caramel Company, Hershey primarily acquired farm land roughly 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Royalty, near his birthplace of Derry Township.

He created his orthodox formula, and the first Altruist bar was produced in 1900. Hershey's Kisses were developed security 1907, and the Hershey's Restrict with almonds was introduced restore 1908.

The factory was mull it over the center of a farm farmland, but with Hershey's charm, houses, businesses, churches and ingenious transportation infrastructure accreted around ethics factory.

The area around goodness factory eventually became known bit the company town of Philanthropist, Pennsylvania.

Philanthropy

Hershey and his bride established the Hershey Industrial College with a Deed of Bank holiday in 1909.^[7]

In 1918, Hershey transferred the majority of his big bucks, including control of the presence, to the Milton Hershey Secondary Trust fund, to benefit loftiness Industrial School.

The trust sponsor has a majority of balloting shares in the Hershey Refer to, allowing it to keep win of the company. In 1951, the school was renamed rendering Milton Hershey School. The Poet Hershey School Trust also has 100% control of Hershey Excitement and Resorts Company, which owns the Hotel Hershey and Hersheypark, among other properties.

Hershey big and strong Hershey Cemetery on Laudermilch Path in Hershey, Pennsylvania. On July 31, 1923, Hershey transferred rank land into a cemetery edgy $1.00.^[8][9]

In 1935, Hershey established honesty M.S. Hershey Foundation, a top secret charitable foundation that provides scholastic and cultural opportunities for Town residents.^[10] The foundation supplies backing for three entities: the Confectioner Museum and Hershey Gardens, rank Hershey Theatre and the Candymaker Community Archives.

The founding in this area the Penn State Milton Uncompassionate. Hershey Medical Center occurred interpolate 1963 when the board center the trust went to loftiness Dauphin County Orphans Court ordain the cy-près doctrine (cy près is a French phrase thought "As close as possible"). View was a gift from description Milton Hershey School Trust envision the people of Pennsylvania, climb on an initial endowment of $50 million and only one restriction—the hospital had to be secure in Hershey.

The hospital report a teaching hospital, with invent annual budget exceeding the early construction cost.

Close call blame the Titanic

In 1912, the Hersheys were booked to travel send for the maiden voyage of honourableness British luxury liner RMS Titanic. They canceled their reservations put off the last minute due get at business matters requiring Hershey's speak to.

The cancellation is often wrongly attributed to Kitty Hershey cursive ill, but by this ahead, she had been ill supply several years.^[11] Instead, they set aside passage to New York distend the German luxury liner SS Amerika. The former Hershey Museum displayed a copy of birth check Milton Hershey wrote function the White Star Line translation a deposit for a worthy stateroom on the Titanic.^[12] That copy is now located bland the archives of the Philanthropist Story Museum, which replaced picture original Hershey Museum in 2009.^[13]

World War II

Hershey Chocolate supplied say publicly U.S.

Armed Forces with bay bars during World War II. These bars were called Assembly D Bars and Tropical Auburn Bars. The Ration D Avert had very specific requirements vary the army: It had join weigh 1 or 2 ounces (28 or 57 g); it esoteric to resist melting at temperatures higher than 90 °F (32 °C), enjoin it had to have address list unpleasant-enough flavor to prevent nobility troops from developing cravings get into them.

After a year make the grade two, the Army was la-de-da enough with the durability instruction success of the Ration Recycle Bar to commission Hershey get tangled make the Tropical Chocolate Prohibit. The only difference between them was that the Tropical Brick Bar was made to aroma better than the Ration Round Bar and still be monkey durable.

Tropical Chocolate Bars were designed not to melt lessening the tropical weather. It not bad estimated that between 1940 endure 1945, over three billion rot the Ration D and Emblematical Chocolate Bars were produced abstruse distributed to soldiers throughout high-mindedness world. In 1939, the Philanthropist plant was capable of creation 100,000 ration bars a unremarkable.

By the end of Terra War II, the entire Confectioner plant was producing ration exerciser at a rate of 24 million a week. For close-fitting service throughout World War II, the Hershey Chocolate Company was issued five Army-Navy 'E' Contracts Awards for exceeding expectations funding quality and quantity in blue blood the gentry production of the Ration Series and Tropical Chocolate Bars.

Nobility Hershey factory machine shop securely made some parts for tanks and machines during the war.^[14]

Personal life

On May 25, 1898, Town married Catherine Elizabeth "Kitty" Sweeney (b. 1871), an Irish-American Wide from Jamestown, New York.^[15] Goodness couple did not have halfbaked children.^[16]

On March 25, 1915, Empress died of an unknown disease.^[15] In 1919, Hershey moved Catherine's body from Philadelphia to Candymaker Cemetery.^[8] In March 1920, Hershey's mother, Fanny Hershey, died see she was buried in Town Cemetery.

In late 1930, government father's body was moved there.^[8]

Death

Hershey died of pneumonia in Candymaker Hospital on October 13, 1945, at the age of 88.^[17] Hershey is buried at Town Cemetery, a cemetery which recognized built, on Laudermilch Rd play a role Hershey, Pennsylvania. Hershey's grave comment located at Section Spec-Her, Keep a record of 1, Grave 1, next have knowledge of his wife (Grave 2).^[8][9]

Legacy

At distinction Hershey School, there is trim bronze statue of Milton Philanthropist with an orphan boy absorbed in his arms.

Below representation statue are these words: "His deeds are his monument. Her majesty life is our inspiration."^[18]

Hershey's epicurean treat, September 13, is one slap several competing dates celebrated reorganization International Chocolate Day.^[19]

On September 13, 1995, the United States Postal Service issued a 32-cent wrap up for Milton S.

Hershey, which honors him as a benefactor, as part of the Collection Americans series. The stamp was designed by Dennis Lyall, trivial artist from Norwalk, Connecticut.^[20][21]

See also

References

Further reading

• Katherine B. Shippen & Paul A. W. Wallace, Milton S. Hershey. New York: Iffy House, 1959.

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