(FOX NEWS) – Milton Snavely Hershey, a German-speaking
Mennonite farmer who turned his passion for confections
into a symbol of American affluence and goodwill, was
born in Derry Township, Penn., on this day in history,
Sept. 13, 1857. 

"Milton Hershey was the rarest of men — both a dreamer
and a builder," notes his biography at the Candy Hall of
Fame, into which the chocolatier was inducted in 1972.

He founded both the Hershey Chocolate Co. in 1894 and
the Milton Hershey School in 1909.