Henry John Heinz (October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919)

In 1869 ,Heinz began packing foodstuffs on a small scale in Sharpsburg,
Pennsylvania. It was there he founded Heinz Noble & Company with a
friend, L. Clarence Noble, and began marketing horseradish.The company
went bankrupt in 1875, but the following year Heinz founded  F&J Heinz,
with his brother and a cousin. One of this company’s first products was
tomato ketchup.

Early Heinz ketchup bottles