Milton Hershey
Milton Hershey
Milton Hershey (1857–1945) was an American chocolate maker, businessman and philanthropist who founded the Hershey Chocolate Company and the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania. Raised in rural Pennsylvania with little formal schooling, he was apprenticed to a candy maker and saw several early candy businesses fail before finding success with the Lancaster Caramel Company. His turning point came at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where he saw German chocolate-making machinery and resolved to produce affordable milk chocolate. He sold his caramel business in 1900 and introduced the Hershey bar, followed by Hershey's Kisses in 1907. He built a model town for his workers with homes, schools and parks. In 1909 he and his wife, Catherine, founded a school for orphaned boys, and in 1918 he gave most of his fortune to its trust; today the Milton Hershey School serves thousands of children from families in need.
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Builders of Modern American Industry
Thomas Edison turned invention into an industry at his Menlo Park laboratory. Henry Ford, who once worked as an engineer for an Edison electric company and became Edison's lifelong friend, introduced the moving assembly line in 1913 to build the Model T. Milton Hershey made milk chocolate affordable and founded a school for orphaned children. Ray Kroc expanded McDonald's through franchising, and Howard Hughes set aviation records and built Hughes Aircraft.
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