# 4122 - 2007 39c Love Series: Hershey's Kiss
With Love and Kisses
Love Series
City: Hershey, PA
Quantity Issued: 300,000,000
Printed by: Avery Dennison
Printing method: Photogravure
Perforations: Die cut 10 ¾ x 11
Color: Multicolored
Happy Birthday, Milton Hershey
Hershey was the only surviving child of Mennonites Henry and Fannie Hershey. The family moved often, and he had no formal education after the fourth grade. In 1871, he apprenticed to a local printer, but found the work boring. He was fired after accidentally dropping his hat in one of the machines. While his father asked the printer to give him his job back, his mother and aunt proposed a different apprenticeship – with a candy maker.
Therefore, when he was 14, Hershey was apprenticed to confectioner Joseph Royer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He spent four years there learning the art of creating candy. In 1876, he set out to start his own confectionery business. He traveled to Denver, where he learned to make caramels using fresh milk. He then spent some time in New Orleans, Chicago, and New York, before returning to Lancaster in 1883. There he borrowed money from the bank to start the Lancaster Caramel Company, which was an instant success. Hershey’s secret was pure fresh milk – widely available in his rural town. When a visitor from England tried his candy, he placed a very large order that enabled Hershey to pay off his debt and buy more supplies!
Unable to have children of their own, Milton and his wife Catherine established a school for orphan boys. Shortly after Catherine died prematurely in 1915, Hershey endowed the school with his entire fortune of Hershey Company Stock – worth approximately $60 million. In 1935, he created the M.S. Hershey Foundation, which offers educational and cultural opportunities to Hershey residents. This funds the Hershey Museum, Hershey Gardens, Hershey Theatre, and the Hershey Community Archives.
With Love and Kisses
Love Series
City: Hershey, PA
Quantity Issued: 300,000,000
Printed by: Avery Dennison
Printing method: Photogravure
Perforations: Die cut 10 ¾ x 11
Color: Multicolored
Happy Birthday, Milton Hershey
Hershey was the only surviving child of Mennonites Henry and Fannie Hershey. The family moved often, and he had no formal education after the fourth grade. In 1871, he apprenticed to a local printer, but found the work boring. He was fired after accidentally dropping his hat in one of the machines. While his father asked the printer to give him his job back, his mother and aunt proposed a different apprenticeship – with a candy maker.
Therefore, when he was 14, Hershey was apprenticed to confectioner Joseph Royer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He spent four years there learning the art of creating candy. In 1876, he set out to start his own confectionery business. He traveled to Denver, where he learned to make caramels using fresh milk. He then spent some time in New Orleans, Chicago, and New York, before returning to Lancaster in 1883. There he borrowed money from the bank to start the Lancaster Caramel Company, which was an instant success. Hershey’s secret was pure fresh milk – widely available in his rural town. When a visitor from England tried his candy, he placed a very large order that enabled Hershey to pay off his debt and buy more supplies!
Unable to have children of their own, Milton and his wife Catherine established a school for orphan boys. Shortly after Catherine died prematurely in 1915, Hershey endowed the school with his entire fortune of Hershey Company Stock – worth approximately $60 million. In 1935, he created the M.S. Hershey Foundation, which offers educational and cultural opportunities to Hershey residents. This funds the Hershey Museum, Hershey Gardens, Hershey Theatre, and the Hershey Community Archives.