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Milton Hershey
Milton Hershey was; born into a family of Mennonite farmers on
September 13, 1857, in Derry Church, Pennsylvania. He left school in
the fourth grade to work as a printer's apprentice in Gap,
Pennsylvania. He left the printing field after only a short time and
became an apprentice to a Lancaster candymaker.
In 1876, at the age of 18, he opened his first candy shop in
Philadelphia. The business failed after six years. He then moved from
city to city before finally returning to Lancaster in 1886 to open the
Lancaster Caramel Company. Although he began his career making
caramel, he soon realized that the candy would not retain an imprint
of his name in hot weather. So he switched his focus to chocolate. His
chocolate-flavored caramel had always been a big seller.
In 1900, he sold the caramel company to concentrate exclusively on the
flourishing chocolate business. Today the company's main plant in
Hershey, Pennsylvania, uses about 700,000 quarts of milk each day, the
storage silos at the plant hold 90-million pounds of cocoa bears, and
Hershey Chocolate is the largest single user of almonds in the
country.
Hershey never abandoned the Mennonite values of his youth. He was
never comfortable with material possessions and showy wealth. So when
his chocolate bars became successful, Hershey used the profits to open
the Milton Hershey School.
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