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Jay Catherwood Hormel (September 11, 1892 – August 30, 1954) was the son of George A. Hormel, founder of Hormel Foods, and was head of the company from 1929 to 1954.
Hormel was the son of Jay Catherwood Hormel and grandson of George A. Hormel, the founder of Hormel Foods.He claimed to have invented the corndog when he was a teenager growing up in Minnesota [4] [5] In the 1950s and 1960s, Hormel composed music for numerous television shows including The Fugitive, Lassie, Naked City and The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin.
Hormel was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1860 to German immigrant John George Hormel, a leather tanner, and Susannah "Susan" Hormel (née Decker), and later settled in Austin, Minnesota. [1] At the age of twelve, he began working in a Chicago packinghouse. [2] Hormel married Lilian Belle Gleason in 1892. [3]
In 1937, in Austin, Minnesota, Hormel Foods combined pork, water, salt, sugar and sodium nitrate, looking for a way to profit off the then-undesirable pork shoulder. ... As the story goes, Jay ...
The Hormel plant circa 1920. In 1921, when George's son Jay Hormel returned from service in World War I, he uncovered that assistant controller Cy Thomson had embezzled $1,187,000 from the company over the previous ten years. [8] The scandal provided George Hormel with additional incentive to professionalize his company.
Dec. 28—Take a step back in time to celebrate the New Year on Jan. 6, from 7-11 p.m. with the Hormel Historic Home. Get all dolled up in your favorite flapper dresses and pinstriped suits, or ...
Aug. 19—From recognizing food insecurities to trying to ease global tensions, the youth who were honored as 10 Under 20 Food Heroes by Hormel Foods are a beacon of hope for the future. The ...
James Catherwood Hormel (January 1, 1933 – August 13, 2021) was an American philanthropist, LGBT activist, diplomat, and heir to the Hormel meatpacking fortune. He served as the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1999 to 2001, and was the first openly gay man to represent the United States as an ambassador.