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The former Hershey Museum displayed a copy of the check Milton Hershey wrote to the White Star Line as a deposit for a first-class stateroom on the Titanic. [12] This copy is now located in the archives of the Hershey Story Museum , which replaced the original Hershey Museum in 2009.
1. Milton Hershey. The founder of the Hershey's chocolate company, Milton Hershey, sent $300 to the White Star Line to reserve a pair of Titanic tickets for him and his wife in the spring of 1912 ...
Titanic lifeboat D, taken from the Carpathia Titanic survivors on board Carpathia. The first lifeboat launched was Lifeboat 7 on the starboard side with 28 people on board out of a capacity of 65. It was lowered around 12:45 am as believed by the British Inquiry. [53] Collapsible Boat D was the last lifeboat to be launched, at 1:55.
John B. Sollenberger (1897–1967) was an American sports and entertainment executive closely associated with Milton S. Hershey and the development of Hershey, Pennsylvania. He was born on a farm in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. At age 16 he enrolled in a stenographic school and became an exceptional stenographer. This led to his joining the ...
American entrepreneur Milton S. Hershey was born in a Mennonite community in Derry Township, Penn., on this day in history, Sept. 13, 1857. He built the iconic Hershey chocolate brand.
Hershey Trust also serves as trustee of the Hershey Cemetery Perpetual Care Maintenance Trust. The company was trustee of the Milton S. Hershey Testamentary Trust until 2012. [25] This trust was established in 1945 upon Milton Hershey's death, endowed with his remaining fortune of $900,000, for the benefit of the Derry Township School District ...
September 20 – Jack Thayer, survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic (born 1894) September 26 – A. Peter Dewey, soldier, first American casualty in Vietnam (born 1916) October 1 Walter Bradford Cannon, physiologist (born 1871) [31] George Van Haltren, baseball player (born 1866) October 13 – Milton S. Hershey, chocolate tycoon (born 1857)
Milton S. Hershey, 1910. The business was first located in a warehouse on the west side of South Duke Street near Vine Street. However, the facilities lacked a boiler to cook the caramels and Hershey soon moved to an old factory building on Church Street that had once housed the Edison Electric Plant.