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Who Is Milton Hershey?

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Milton Hershey was born on September 13, 1857, in an old stone farmhouse built by his great grandfather near the little town of Derry church, Pennsylvania. On his way to becoming a successful chocolatier. Milton endured many challenges and struggles. He experienced a lot of childhood changes. Milton Hershey made mistakes and had failures along the way, to keep going and learned to make candy and to build his own company. When Milton Hershey was a child, he faced a lot of change. Back when Milton was seven years old, he started his education at the one room schoolhouse in Derry church. When he was eight, he moved to Rockridge School. Then when Milton Hershey was nine, he had moved several times, and when Milton had finished fourth grade, he dropped out of school. When Milton was eleven, tragedy struck the Hershey family, Milton’s little sister Serena died. Milton Hershey had dealt with many changes that forced him to grow up and face the world. …show more content…

When Milton was 18, he started his own candy business, but after a few years at the age of 25 he went out of business because he didn’t make enough money. Milton then went to Colorado and found work with a candy maker who specialized in making caramels, but then Milton was on the move again. After that, Milton went to New Orleans. Unfortunately he had reached a dead end before he even started, their wasn't any candy making equipment. Milton Hershey had many failures and struggle in his lifetime as a young candy

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