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H. B. Reese
Best remembered as the creator of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, he built a beloved candy company after years of farm and factory work in Pennsylvania. His story blends small-town grit, family ambition, and one very lasting sweet idea.
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Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the Ox Team to the Aeroplane
by John B. Reese, H. B. Reese
About the author
Born in York County, Pennsylvania, in 1879, Harry Burnett Reese was an American businessman and inventor who later founded the H. B. Reese Candy Company. Before making candy, he worked a range of jobs, including farming, and eventually found work connected to Milton Hershey's operations in the Hershey, Pennsylvania, area.
In the 1920s, Reese started his own candy business and developed a variety of confections, but Reese's Peanut Butter Cups became his signature creation. That combination of chocolate and peanut butter would go on to become one of the most recognizable candies in the United States.
Reese died in 1956, but his name and invention endured well beyond his lifetime. He was later inducted into the Candy Hall of Fame, and his company became part of the larger Hershey story, securing his place in American candy history.