‘Chocolate is a permanent thing’

It took multiple tries before Milton Hershey tasted sweet success.

Born in 1857, in Derry Township in Dauphin County, Hershey was apprenticed to Joseph Royer, a Lancaster confectioner, when he was 14.

During his four years studying the trade, Hershey learned to make a variety of items, but chocolate wasn’t widely available yet…

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