ABSTRACT
As the twentieth century unfolded, few would have guessed that a young Mennonite man born in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania would change the name of his hometown, and indeed, the entire world of chocolate candy. Milton Hershey, born in 1857 on a farm near Derry Church, Pennsylvania, did just that. Shrugging off the limitations of his fourth grade education, and after a brief apprenticeship, the budding entrepreneur failed at his first three attempts to create his own candy company before finally succeeding in 1883 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with the Lancaster Caramel Company.1
