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30-427: Hershey, Pennsylvania was established in 1884 and Milton S. Hershey established many of the town's amenities. While many of the local churches had cemeteries, the town of Hershey had no community cemetery until Hershey Cemetery was established in 1918. Given that Hershey, Pennsylvania had a young population at the time of its establishment there was originally no need for a cemetery. However, by 1916, Milton Hershey saw

60-558: A local confectioners, learned how to make caramels using fresh milk. He then went to New Orleans and Chicago looking for opportunities, before settling in New York City in 1883 and training at Huyler's . He started his second business which, while initially successful, lasted only three years, closing in 1886. Hershey returned to Lancaster in 1883 and started the Lancaster Caramel Company , which became

90-609: A philanthropist, as part of the Great Americans series . The stamp was designed by Dennis Lyall, an artist from Norwalk, Connecticut . Hershey bar The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar (commonly called the Hershey's Bar , or more simply the Hershey Bar ) is a flagship chocolate bar manufactured by The Hershey Company . Hershey refers to it as "The Great American Chocolate Bar". The Hershey Milk Chocolate Bar

120-759: A success. By the early 1890s Lancaster Caramel Company had begun employing over 1,300 workers in two factories. After traveling to Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition , Hershey became interested in chocolate. He sold Lancaster Caramel Company for $ 1 million to start the Hershey Chocolate Company. Using the proceeds from the 1900 sale of the Lancaster Caramel Company, Hershey initially acquired farm land roughly 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Lancaster, near his birthplace of Derry Township. He created his own formula, and

150-493: Is a bronze statue of Milton Hershey with an orphan boy wrapped in his arms. Below the statue are these words: "His deeds are his monument. His life is our inspiration." Hershey's birthday, September 13, is one of several competing dates celebrated as International Chocolate Day . On September 13, 1995, the United States Postal Service issued a 32-cent stamp for Milton S. Hershey, which honors him as

180-577: Is often incorrectly attributed to Kitty Hershey falling ill, but by this time, she had been ill for several years. Instead, they booked passage to New York on the German luxury liner SS Amerika . The former Hershey Museum displayed a copy of the check Milton Hershey wrote to the White Star Line as a deposit for a first-class stateroom on the Titanic . This copy is now located in the archives of

210-883: The Hershey Industrial School with a Deed of Trust in 1909. In 1918, Hershey transferred the majority of his assets, including control of the company, to the Milton Hershey School Trust fund, to benefit the Industrial School. The trust fund has a majority of voting shares in the Hershey Company, allowing it to keep control of the company. In 1951, the school was renamed the Milton Hershey School. The Milton Hershey School Trust also has 100% control of Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company , which owns

240-841: The Hershey Museum and Hershey Gardens , the Hershey Theatre and the Hershey Community Archives. The founding of the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center occurred in 1963 when the board of the trust went to the Dauphin County Orphans Court with the cy-près doctrine ( cy près is a French phrase meaning "As close as possible"). It was a gift from the Milton Hershey School Trust to

270-563: The Hershey Story Museum , which replaced the original Hershey Museum in 2009. Hershey Chocolate supplied the U.S. Armed Forces with chocolate bars during World War II . These bars were called Ration D Bars and Tropical Chocolate Bars. The Ration D Bar had very specific requirements from the army: It had to weigh 1 or 2 ounces (28 or 57 g); it had to resist melting at temperatures higher than 90 °F (32 °C), and it had to have an unpleasant-enough flavor to prevent

300-504: The Hotel Hershey and Hersheypark , among other properties. Hershey built Hershey Cemetery on Laudermilch Road in Hershey, Pennsylvania . On July 31, 1923, Hershey transferred the land into a cemetery for $ 1.00. In 1935, Hershey established the M.S. Hershey Foundation, a private charitable foundation that provides educational and cultural opportunities for Hershey residents. The foundation supplies funding for three entities:

330-591: The 4th grade. In 1871, Milton Hershey left school and was apprenticed to a local printer, Sam Ernst, who published a German-English newspaper. He soon lost this job, and took up the candy trade after recommendation by his family. His mother arranged for the 14-year-old Hershey to be apprenticed to a confectioner named Joseph Royer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania . He studied under Royer for four years. In 1876, he moved to Philadelphia to start his first confectionery business. Milton then traveled to Denver and, finding work at

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360-719: The Hershey Chocolate Company was issued five Army-Navy 'E' Production Awards for exceeding expectations for quality and quantity in the production of the Ration D and Tropical Chocolate Bars. The Hershey factory machine shop even made some parts for tanks and machines during the war. On May 25, 1898, Hershey married Catherine Elizabeth "Kitty" Sweeney (b. 1871), an Irish-American Catholic from Jamestown, New York . The couple did not have any children. On March 25, 1915, Catherine died of an unknown disease. In 1919, Hershey moved Catherine's body from Philadelphia to Hershey Cemetery. In March 1920, Hershey's mother, Fanny Hershey, died and she

390-1204: The Lancaster Caramel Company in August 1900, and kept the chocolate manufacturing business. In November of that same year, Hershey began to produce and sell the Hershey chocolate bar. Contains 2% or Less of: Milk Fat, Lecithin, Disodium Phosphate, Baking Soda, Vanillin (Artificial Flavor) Contains 2% or Less of: Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Whey, High-fructose corn syrup , Chocolate, Lecithin, Baking Soda, Salt, Natural Flavors, Artificial Flavor, Tocopherols (To Maintain Freshness), PGPR (Emulsifer) Contains 2% or Less of: Lecithin, Salt, Malt, Yeast Contains 2% or Less of: Lecithin, Vanillin (Artificial Flavor), PGPR Contains 2% or Less of: Corn Syrup Solids, Dextrose, Palm Kernel Oil, Corn Syrup, Artificial Color, Yellow 6 Lake, Yellow 5 Lake, Red 40 Lake, Blue 1 Lake, Cornstarch, Salt, Confectioner's Glaze, Lecithin, Modified Cornstarch, Carnauba Wax, Vanillin (Artificial Flavor) The Hershey Process milk chocolate in these bars uses fresh milk delivered directly from local farms. The process

420-408: The caramels. The next year, 1894, Hershey founded the Hershey Chocolate Company and incorporated it as a subsidiary of the Lancaster Caramel Company. The Hershey Chocolate Company developed its own line of chocolate products, marketed as "sweet chocolate novelties" to distinguish them from unsweetened baking chocolate. After developing the Hershey process to mass-produce chocolate in 1899, Hershey sold

450-461: The first Hershey bar was produced in 1900. Hershey's Kisses were developed in 1907, and the Hershey's Bar with almonds was introduced in 1908. The factory was in the center of a dairy farmland, but with Hershey's support, houses, businesses, churches and a transportation infrastructure accreted around the factory. The area around the factory eventually became known as the company town of Hershey, Pennsylvania . Hershey and his wife established

480-457: The milk is partially lipolyzed . This produces butyric acid , a compound found in substances such as Parmesan cheese and butter, which stabilizes the milk from further fermentation. This flavor gives the product a "tangy" taste that the US public has come to associate with the taste of chocolate, to the point that other US manufacturers often add butyric acid to their milk chocolates, although

510-555: The need for Hershey to establish a cemetery as his wife Catherine Sweeney Hershey died in 1915. Catherine Sweeney's body was held at Laurel Hill Cemetery until Hershey Cemetery was established. Milton Hershey donated land that was on Laudermilch Road, one mile north of Hershey, Pennsylvania, that overlooked the Swatara Creek basin to be used as the site of the Hershey Cemetery. The cemetery's design and landscaping

540-586: The people of Pennsylvania , with an initial endowment of $ 50 million and only one restriction—the hospital had to be built in Hershey. The hospital is a teaching hospital , with an annual budget exceeding the initial construction cost. In 1912, the Hersheys were booked to travel on the maiden voyage of the British luxury liner RMS Titanic . They canceled their reservations at the last minute due to business matters requiring Hershey's attention. The cancellation

570-467: The presence of the acid has caused the flavour to be considered unappetising by those more accustomed to chocolate brands which do not include it. In Canada this led to Hershey introducing a reformulated Canadian bar in 1983. Starting in 2006, the Hershey company has added polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR) to their chocolate, except for the traditional plain milk chocolate Hershey's Kisses . In 2015, Hershey announced they would begin removing PGPR from

600-485: The rest of their chocolate. Artificial vanillin was also removed in 2015. Hershey did remove PGPR from some of their chocolate bars, but in April 2019 started putting it back in Hershey's Milk Chocolate with Almonds full size bar, and plain milk chocolate bars, and never removed it from Symphony milk chocolate and other products. Hershey does not claim to use vanilla in their chocolate, only natural flavor. In addition to

630-632: The standard Milk Chocolate and Milk Chocolate with Almonds varieties, Hershey's produces several other chocolate bars in various flavors: Special Dark chocolate , Cookies 'N' Creme , Symphony (both Milk Chocolate and Almond Toffee), Mr. Goodbar (with peanuts), and Krackel (with crisped rice). Nine flavors were available for limited periods: Double Chocolate, Nut Lovers, Twosomes Reese's Pieces, Cookies 'N' Chocolate, Cookies 'N' Mint, Strawberries 'n' Creme, Raspberries 'n' Creme, Twosomes Heath, and Twosomes Whoppers. All flavors have between 210 and 230 calories per standard-sized bar. The Kashruth Division of

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660-526: The troops from developing cravings for them. After a year or two, the Army was impressed enough with the durability and success of the Ration D Bar to commission Hershey to make the Tropical Chocolate Bar. The only difference between them was that the Tropical Chocolate Bar was made to taste better than the Ration D Bar and still be as durable. Tropical Chocolate Bars were designed not to melt in

690-423: The tropical weather. It is estimated that between 1940 and 1945, over three billion of the Ration D and Tropical Chocolate Bars were produced and distributed to soldiers throughout the world. In 1939, the Hershey plant was capable of producing 100,000 ration bars a day. By the end of World War II, the entire Hershey plant was producing ration bars at a rate of 24 million a week. For its service throughout World War II,

720-424: Was able to build his own company town of Hershey, Pennsylvania . Hershey's philanthropy extended to a boarding school , originally for local orphans, but accommodating around 2,000 students as of 2016. In World War II , the company developed a special non-melting bar for troops serving overseas. The Hershey Company , known as Hershey's, is one of the world's biggest confectionery manufacturers. Milton Hershey

750-427: Was an American chocolatier , businessman, and philanthropist. Trained in the confectionery business, Hershey pioneered the manufacture of caramel , using fresh milk. He launched the Lancaster Caramel Company, which achieved bulk exports, and then sold it to start a new company supplying mass-produced milk chocolate , previously a luxury good . The first Hershey bars were sold in 1900 and proved so popular that he

780-530: Was based upon the community cemetery's planned design from 1915. Shrubbery and bushes were placed throughout the cemetery. On July 31, 1923, Hershey transferred the land into a cemetery for $ 1.00. Milton Hershey built a marble monument reading "Hershey," which marks the spot of the Hershey family's grave plots. In 2007, on the 150th anniversary of Milton Hershey's birthday, flowers were placed at his gravesite in celebration. Milton S. Hershey Milton Snavely Hershey (September 13, 1857 – October 13, 1945)

810-545: Was born on September 13, 1857, to Henry and Veronica "Fanny" ( née Snavely) Hershey. Of Swiss and German descent, his family were members of Pennsylvania's Mennonite community, and he grew up speaking Pennsylvania Dutch . In April 1862, Hershey's sister Sarena Hershey was born in Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania , and died in 1867 at age 4. Hershey had a very limited education, with no schooling beyond

840-609: Was buried in Hershey Cemetery . In late 1930, his father's body was moved there. Hershey died of pneumonia in Hershey Hospital on October 13, 1945, at the age of 88. Hershey is buried at Hershey Cemetery , a cemetery which he built, on Laudermilch Rd in Hershey, Pennsylvania . Hershey's grave is located at Section Spec-Her, Lot 1, Grave 1, next to his wife (Grave 2). At the Hershey School, there

870-631: Was developed by Milton Hershey and produced the first mass-produced chocolate in the United States. As a result, the Hershey flavor is widely recognized in the United States, the Philippines, and to a minor extent in Canada, where British-produced chocolates were commonly sold, but less so internationally, especially in areas where European chocolates are more widely available. The process is a company and trade secret , but experts speculate that

900-575: Was first sold in 1900. Hershey chocolate bars had their origin in Milton Hershey 's first successful confectionery business, Lancaster Caramel Company , which was founded in 1886. After seeing German chocolate manufacturing machinery at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, Hershey decided to go into the chocolate making business. After purchasing the chocolate processing machinery, Hershey began by applying chocolate coatings to

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