Who Is Milton Hershey?

Early on Milton Hershey had a rough start. He had faced many adversities before the age of eighteen. Milton was born on September 13, 1857 in Pennsylvania (Schuette 5). He was an only child for most of his life. Hershey had a younger sister who “contracted scarlet fever in 1867 and succumbed to complications accompanying that disease” (qtd. in Shuman). This left him the only children of Henry and Fanny (Ginzl). Hershey’s father aspired all his life to become rich some day. Most of his plans were failures. One time “Henry quickly moved his family to what became Oil City, where he invested his meager funds in what turned out to be quite unprofitable speculations” (qtd in. Shuman). Hershey spent most of his childhood moving from one place to another while; his father pursued his crazy schemes.
in Shuman). Eventually they ceased to live with each other. As a child Hershey bounced from school to school because, they moved so much. As imagined it was hard for him to keep up and learn much. He then dropped out of school at the age of thirteen "Milton Snavely Hershey."). This was a major challenge for him. At age thirteen, it was hard to find work; he mostly helped his parents on the farm. His father then forced him to work in the printing business. Hershey was not very fond of this job. He then applied for a job as a candy apprentice. He “drove sixteen miles to town” just to apply for the job (qtd in Snavely 3). This is where he first got his experience with candy. Although Hershey’s childhood was an adversity he faced it didn’t stop there he struggled early on with his