Subj : To Celebrate Easter To : All From : Mike Dippel Date : Wed Apr 13 2022 11:50:22 My Featured Connections for Easter weekend are candy makers such as John Cadbury. I am: 29 degrees from Adolf Ahlgren Developed a gelatin and gum arabic-based confectionery, by way of a successful introduction of a mouth water from a German recipe, named L˙kerol, and then a cough drop with the same taste and name. 26 degrees from Sam Born In 1923, he founded the Just Born company in Brooklyn, New York; a candy manufacturer that still manufactures Peeps, Mike and Ike, and Hot Tamales. In his 1924 declaration for immigration purposes, he indicated he was a chocolate manufacturer. 22 degrees from John Cadbury English proprietor and founder of Cadbury. He developed an emulsification process to make solid chocolate - creating the modern chocolate bar. 22 degrees from Domingo Ghirardelli When the Gold Rush hit California, Domingo went to America and opened his first store in a mining camp where he stocked the shelves with chocolate. In 1852, he founded a confectionery shop in San Francisco which later became known as the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company 17 degrees from Milton Hershey Developed a candy-making facility in Derry Church. It opened in 1905, setting a new course for Hershey and the candy industry and he became the first person in America to mass produce milk chocolate products commercially. 28 degrees from Abel Hoadley Manufactured an individual honeycomb bar, the "Violet Crumble" 30 degrees from Cornelis Jamin Cornelis started as street salesman in candy. He expanded this business to the candy store chain Jamin. At the end of his life he owned 50 candy stores. 34 degrees from Henri Nestl˙ Produced ingredients (cow's milk, cereal flour, malt or potassium carbonate) already known to doctors and pharmacists at the time, but it was only Henri Nestl˙ who could process them into a durable powder. 19 degrees from Harry Burnett Reese Was an American inventor and businessman known for creating the No. 1 selling candy brand in the United States, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and founding the H.B. Reese Candy Company. 22 degrees from Mary See Mary See had developed the recipes that became the foundation of the See's candy business while helping run her husband's hotel on Tremont Island in Ontario. 29 degrees from Izaak van Melle Started a small factory for the production of sugar confectionery in Breskens, diagonally opposite his father's bakery. In 1932 the brothers Machiel and Pierre van Melle bought the rights to produce the soft fruit caramel - now known as Fruittella. This information was obtained for http://wikitree.com the Free Family Tree that includes 30,196,947 profiles (9,709,796 with DNA test connections) edited by 898,678 members from around the world. Mike Dippel --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v7.0 * Origin: The Hobby Line! BBS - hobbylinebbs.com (954:895/1) .