Tuesday, January 18, 2011

milton hershey

failed as a printers apprentice.
1856 moved to a farm
sept 13, 1857 had a baby
1862 had a daughter
1867 sister died
age 13 dropped out of school
june 1st 1876 at 18, began a candy store in Philedelphia shut down after 5 years of hard work
went to new york to make a candy shop with henry liebkicker  went broke again
made chewy milk based caramel, 1894 began the company
made good chocolate for an affordable price,
build a school for orphanas, town was named after him as well as streets
1920 his mother died, 
died 1945

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