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October 11: Henry J. Heinz Born

On 11 October 1844, Henry J. Heinz was born. At the age of twelve, Heinz was distributing produce from his family’s farm directly to grocery stores. By the age of twenty-five, Heinz had a partnership in a horseradish business that thrived for close to a decade. In the same year that the horseradish business fell […]