Blog Assiment # 16

Milton Hershey

According to http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/milton.hershey.html almost every kid in this country has at one time or another eaten a Hershey chocolate bar. Hershey chocolate has become famous around the world. But did you know that the Hershey chocolate factory is less than one hundred years old? And did you know that the founder of Hershey Chocolate, Milton Hershey, had many failures in business before he started his famous company.

  Also according to http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/milton.hershey.html Milton Hershey grew up in the rolling farm country of Pennsylvania. Before he became interested in making chocolate, Milton Hershey trained to become a printer. He worked for a small newspaper at first, and then decided that printing was not the right profession for him. He took his new skills back to New York and worked selling candies on the street. But this second business also failed.

Also according to http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/milton.hershey.html Finally, Milton Hershey moved back to the farm hills where he grew up. He then experimented with all sorts of different candies and chocolates. The area where he lived had lots and lots of dairy farms so he had a large and easy supply of fresh milk. Also he could get other supplies, such as sugar, from nearby Philadelphia. Then by 1893 he was selling a million dollars worth of caramel candy per year. Since his chocolate dipped and his chocolate flavored caramels were the bestselling he decided to make chocolate himself.