Untitled Slide

MILTON'S START

• Milton grew up,as A mennonite
• Miltons first job was running a printing press
• Milton was later fired and was hired at a candy shop
• There he learned to make all different kinds of candy
• After four years he left to go start his own business in Philadelphia

FAILURE AND SUCCESS

• After six years he closed his business in Philadelphia
• He Moved to Colorado and learned to make caramels
• Then he went to Chicago,New Orleans,then to New York in each place he failed
• Back in Lancaster he started his new company Lancaster Carmel
• His big break came from a large order from England

SWEET SUCCESS

• Soon people all over the world ate carmels
• At the worlds fair he bought a chocolate machine
• He began the Hersey chocolate factory and sold sweet,dark chocolates
• He married his wife he met in New York
• August 1900 he sold the caramel company for 1 million dollars

CHOCOLATE FACTORY

• Milton wanted to make milk chocolate that no one has had before
• In 1900 he started making Hershey milk chocolate bars
• He needed to build a factory and decided to build it in his hometown
• There he built his factory and a town around it
• Soon Hersey meant chocolate to most people

HIS FORTUNE

• Kitty his wife wanted to start a Home and school for orphans
• After she died he gave all his money(60 million) to the school
• During the Great Depression he kept all his workers
• He made Ration chocolate bars for the soldiers in World War II
• He died in 1945 at age 88