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Milton Hershey

Jane Sutcliffe

Non-Fiction

Ages 7 to 9

Lerner, 2004, 0-8225-0247-X

  Milton Hersey was born into a Pennsylvanian Mennonite family. His father was something of a dreamer, while his mother was down-to-earth and very hard working. Their son Milton was a little like both of them. He worked hard on the family farm but he knew that he did not want to become a farmer when he grew up. And so Milton left school and went into the printing trade where he learned how to set blocks of type on a printing press. It turned out, however, not to be a good job for Milton, and when he was fired his mother found him a job working in an ice cream and candy shop in Lancaster.

  Milton soon found out that he had a talent for making candy and he became very good at it. In 1876, when he was nineteen, he left Pennsylvania and he set up a candy shop of his own in Philadelphia. Unfortunately Milton was not very good at making his passion profitable and his business had to close. His other candy making businesses suffered the same fate and yet Milton did not give up. In 1886 he tried one more time to make a go of things with a new candy company, the Lancaster Caramel Company. He sold his caramels off a cart and one day an Englishman tried Milton’s delicious sweet treats. He liked them so much that he placed a huge order. Milton had finally got the break he needed and this took him down a wonderful road – a road that led him to the world of chocolate.

  There can’t be many people in America who have not had the delicious pleasure of eating a Hersey’s chocolate bar. This is the story of the man who first created those bars, a man who made chocolate available to the average American consumer for the first time. Young chocolate lovers will enjoy the story and will be delighted to find out how Hersey’s chocolate bars and candies came into being. Not only that, but they will learn that Milton Hersey was a caring and generous philanthropist who gave away most of his chocolate fortune to help others.

  This is one of the titles in the History Maker Bios series.

 

 

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