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1) Who was Milton Hershey?

Author

Buckley, James

Series

Who was?

Pub. Date

[2013]

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A look at Milton Hershey's life details his professional successes, including the founding of the Hershey Chocolate Company, and how he used his wealth to benefit others.

2) Milton Hershey, chocolate king

Author

Malone, Mary

Series

Americans all

Pub. Date

[1971]

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A biography of the man whose faltering beginnings in candy making eventually resulted in a chocolate business known throughout the world.

3) Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's extraordinary life of wealth, empire, and utopian dreams

Author

D'Antonio, Michael

Pub. Date

[2006]

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The name means chocolate to America and the world, but as author D'Antonio reveals, it also stands for an inspiring man and a uniquely successful experiment in community and capitalism that produced a business empire devoted to a higher purpose. Milton S. Hershey brought affordable milk chocolate to America, creating and then satisfying the chocoholic urges of millions, and pioneering techniques of branding, mass production, and marketing. But as...

4) Milton hershey: hershey's chocolate creator

Author

Mattern, Joanne

Series

Food dudes

Pub. Date

[2015].

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In this title, unwrap the life of talented Hershey's chocolate creator, Milton Hershey! Readers will enjoy getting the scoop on this Food Dude, beginning with his childhood near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Students can follow Hershey's success story from his apprenticeship at Royer's Ice Cream Parlor and Garden to his establishment of the Lancaster Caramel Company. Hershey's discovery of chocolate and determined creation of the Hershey bar also highlighted....

5) Brands we know: Hershey's

Author

Green, Sara

Series

Brands we know

Pub. Date

2015

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History about Hershey's how it got started, Who started

6) Milton Hershey: young chocolatier

Author

Eboch, M.M

Pub. Date

c2008

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"... Read all about how the man we know as the famous young chocolatier finally struck it rich--in money, love, and chocolate!"--Cover back.

7) Milton Hershey: more than chocolate

Author

Benge, Janet

Series

Heroes of History

Pub. Date

2012.

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Learn about Milton Hershey the creator of the famous Hershey candy bar.

8) The emperors of chocolate: inside the secret world of Hershey and Mars

Author

Brenner, Joël Glenn

Pub. Date

[1999]

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Forrest Mars and Milton Hershey built business empires out of chocolate. In this history of the candy business, over eight years in the making, former Washington Post reporter Joel Glenn Brenner tells a unique story that is like chocolate itself, a rich blend of many compelling ingredients - in this case, biography and cultural history, investigative reporting and literary journalism. Along the way, Brenner takes us inside a world as mysterious as...

9) Milton Hershey: the founder of Hershey's chocolate

Author

Gillis, Jennifer Blizin

Series

Lives and times

Pub. Date

[2005]

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Simple text, photographs, and illustrations describe the life of Milton Hershey, who built the Hershey chocolate factory and who started a school for orphan children.

10) Milton Hershey: chocolate king, town builder

Author

Simon, Charnan

Series

Community builders

Pub. Date

c1998

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Relates the story of the founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company in Hershey, Pennsylvania, known for his hard work, perseverance, and charity on behalf of young people.

11) Milton Hershey

Author

Sutcliffe, Jane

Pub. Date

c2004

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A biography of the successful chocolate maker who built a town around his factory with unique housing for his workers and a school for disadvantaged students.