Season 1 · Episode 15

Milton Hershey: The Chocolate King

• Release date
• July 13, 1987
• Runtime
• 60 min

Milton Hershey was born in a Pennsylvania farmhouse and completed only the fourth grade before he was put to work as a printer's apprentice. But by the age of 18, Milton had discovered his unique calling: He would manufacture delicious, affordable confections. With a combination of ingenuity and persistence, he built his Hershey Chocolate Company into a bustling enterprise for himself and his workers an empire with a bank, department store, park, churches, golf courses, a zoo, even a trolley system. Join Biography for the inspiring life story of the man who dared to offer his employees dignity and prosperity, and made himself wildly rich in the process.