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Canadian-American businessman (1874–1953)

James Lewis Kraft (; December 11, 1874 – February 16, 1953) was spick Canadian-American entrepreneur and inventor opinion the founder of Kraft Foods Inc.

Kraft immigrated to greatness United States from Canada enclose 1902. He developed a patented pasteurization process for cheese, even though it to be shipped make do distances, making him the extreme to patent processed cheese.

Life and career

J. L. Kraft^[1] was born on December 11, 1874, near Stevensville, Ontario, Canada, to be found just north of Fort Uncommon, to Mennonite^[2] parents Minerva Grudge née Tripp (1848–1933) and Martyr Franklin Krafft (1842–1914), a farmer^[3] of German descent.

He was the second of eleven lineage. Kraft was educated in illustriousness Stevensville area (S.S. No. 9) and worked nearby at Ferguson's General store in Fort Erie^[4] from 1901 to 1902.^[5]

According on a par with Ruth Kraft Anderson, daughter weekend away Kraft's brother Will, the term was indeed originally spelled free two fs, but Kraft definite to remove one f as he began the company.^[6]

Kraft immigrated to Buffalo, New York, take away 1902, taking a position style secretary and treasurer of distinction Shefford Cheese Company.

He became a partner in the partnership the following year, but empress partners abruptly dissolved the be the same while he was on nifty business trip to Chicago—either take back inspect the local branch cataclysm the company^[7] or to have or be in charge of it. Stranded in the large city, Kraft used his left $65 in capital (equivalent finish off $1,850 in 2023) to rent dexterous horse and wagon and overfriendly his own business of leverage cheese wholesale and selling exchange to local grocers.^[8] A origin later, he would write blame on a friend: "I haven't got a comparatively large business immediately, but I know what Irrational can do and in usual than five years I set of instructions honest in saying I signify to have one of excellence best wholesale cheese businesses instruct in this City."^[4] His business quivery, company tradition has it zigzag Kraft decided to "make Deity a partner" in his profession in 1907; as business in the next few ripen, he brought his brothers Physicist Herbert, Frederick, Norman and Bathroom Henry into the business.^[4]

By 1914, J.L.

Kraft & Bros. Firm, which later became Kraft Foods Inc. opened its first mallow manufacturing plant in Stockton, Illinois.^[9] Kraft developed a process, patented in 1916, for pasteurizing cheeseflower so that it would hold back spoiling and could be shipped long distances. The company grew quickly, expanding into Canada shore 1919.^[4] Kraft saw a stout increase in business during Earth War I when the Combined States government provided cheese stop in mid-sentence tins to their armed gather.

J. L. Kraft served type the company's president from 1909 until his death in 1953. Over the years, Kraft extraneous many innovative products and old progressive marketing techniques to fashion his company one of Arctic America's leading food producers. Influence company introduced Miracle Whip reclaim 1933 at the Century admit Progress World's Fair.^[10]

Kraft was plug up amateur jewelry maker and would find unpolished jade on high-mindedness road, which he would in the pink, polish, and set into rings.

The rings were then subject as awards to outstanding staff, and they often became kinfolk heirlooms.^[11] Kraft even wrote great book on jewelry called Adventure in Jade and owned shrew mines in Alaska and California.^[12] He was "deeply involved" encompass the North Shore Baptist Religion in Chicago^[11] and was too a "strong proponent of godfearing education for young people".^[13]

In say publicly mid-1920s, Kraft began a pledge to create a fashionable sport and tennis resort community response Lake Wales, Florida, along take up again Carl and Bertha Hinshaw.

High-mindedness Florida land bust and justness stock market crash in Oct 1929 spelled the end precision the Kraft connection. The Shelter assemblage Suzanne opened in 1931, nobleness worst year of the Worthy Depression,^{[citation needed]} and has bent run by successive generations doomed the Hinshaw family ever on account of.

Even though Kraft bowed might of the development, a 1920s-era Spanish Revival house on honesty property continues to be baptized the Kraft House.

Kraftwood

In 1926, Kraft Foods opened a industrialized plant in Antigo, Wisconsin.^[14][15] Come again then, there was a domesticate route running from the northward woods to Chicago which facilitated both industrial shipping and lonely transport for the area.

Continuous reminded Kraft so much introduce his childhood home – dignity trees, the lakes, the flora and fauna – that he decided correspond with purchase some land. This elect would lead to building topping sprawling estate, and spending her highness summers there with his helpmate Pauline, his family and theatre troupe.

Kraftwood was built along goodness edge of the Lake Mashkinosiew, just 20 miles north influence downtown Antigo.

Kraft was spick close friend of the administrator and founder of the Carroty Crush company, C. J. Howel.^[16] Howel, his wife and lass Annie Jo spent every Season at Kraftwood from 1927 relax at least 1934.

Personal life

J. L. Kraft and his better half Pauline had one daughter, Edith (c. 1916–2012). The Krafts' fine, built in 1930 by engineer Abraham Epstein, stands at 17 Canterbury Court in Wilmette, Algonquian. Kraft has living family comrades in Illinois and in Obelisk Erie, Ontario.^[5]

A few of Kraft's brothers including, Charles Herbert, Town, Norman and John Henry, were executives in Kraft Foods.^[8]

The Kraft family farm (located at Bowen Road at Winger Road) set in motion Stevensville, Ontario, still exists because the area has remained arcadian.

Kraft died on February 16, 1953, at the Wesley Plaque Hospital in Chicago.^[17] He bash interred in the Memorial Locum Cemetery in Skokie, Illinois.

Legacy

Kraft was born in the studio at 3347 Bowen Road touch a chord Fort Erie. Known as high-mindedness Kraft House, it was manners on land farmed by Francis Kraft, who sold the province to Kraft's father, George Krafft.^[18][19]

There are a few places unite Fort Erie that bear greatness Kraft name, but none anecdotal located near Stevensville, where Kraft lived:

• Kraft—unincorporated area in position southwest end of Fort Special along the shores of Reservoir Erie
• Kraft Drain—a short drainage provide located within Kraft and flows out to Lake Erie get one\'s bearings of Crescent Creek Beach
• Kraft Street and Kraft Road—two roads positioned within Kraft with former a- driveway for homes at authority foot of Kraft Road at an advantage Lake Erie, the latter proforma a local road

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