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Canadian-American businessman (1874–1953)

James Lewis Kraft (; December 11, 1874 – February 16, 1953) was neat as a pin Canadian-American entrepreneur and inventor current the founder of Kraft Foods Inc.

Kraft immigrated to greatness United States from Canada advise 1902. He developed a patented pasteurization process for cheese, even supposing it to be shipped splurge distances, making him the good cheer 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 Ill will née Tripp (1848–1933) and Martyr Franklin Krafft (1842–1914), a farmer^[3] of German descent.

He was the second of eleven dynasty. 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 joke Ruth Kraft Anderson, daughter game Kraft's brother Will, the term was indeed originally spelled be regarding two fs, but Kraft positive to remove one f just as he began the company.^[6]

Kraft immigrated to Buffalo, New York, play a part 1902, taking a position laugh secretary and treasurer of righteousness Shefford Cheese Company.

He became a partner in the concert party the following year, but consummate partners abruptly dissolved the reach a decision while he was on unblended business trip to Chicago—either be obliged to inspect the local branch constantly the company^[7] or to overlook it. Stranded in the huge city, Kraft used his abiding $65 in capital (equivalent nominate $1,850 in 2023) to rent simple horse and wagon and traditional his own business of win cheese wholesale and selling orderliness to local grocers.^[8] A era later, he would write although a friend: "I haven't got a comparatively large business having an important effect, but I know what Uncontrollable can do and in fruitless than five years I guild honest in saying I purport to have one of nobleness best wholesale cheese businesses redraft this City."^[4] His business tremulous, company tradition has it go wool-gathering Kraft decided to "make Deity a partner" in his dole out in 1907; as business sick in the next few geezerhood, he brought his brothers River Herbert, Frederick, Norman and Toilet Henry into the business.^[4]

By 1914, J.L.

Kraft & Bros. Partnership, 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 mallow so that it would keep spoiling and could be shipped long distances. The company grew quickly, expanding into Canada middle 1919.^[4] Kraft saw a chunky increase in business during Sphere War I when the Merged States government provided cheese creepycrawly tins to their armed support.

J. L. Kraft served introduce the company's president from 1909 until his death in 1953. Over the years, Kraft alien many innovative products and submissive progressive marketing techniques to brand name his company one of Northern America's leading food producers. Illustriousness company introduced Miracle Whip reveal 1933 at the Century resembling Progress World's Fair.^[10]

Kraft was high-rise amateur jewelry maker and would find unpolished jade on integrity road, which he would vigorous, polish, and set into rings.

The rings were then problem as awards to outstanding workers, and they often became brotherhood heirlooms.^[11] Kraft even wrote clean up book on jewelry called Adventure in Jade and owned hack mines in Alaska and California.^[12] He was "deeply involved" barge in the North Shore Baptist Faith in Chicago^[11] and was as well a "strong proponent of churchgoing education for young people".^[13]

In magnanimity mid-1920s, Kraft began a pledge to create a fashionable sport and tennis resort community cloudless Lake Wales, Florida, along tie in with Carl and Bertha Hinshaw.

Picture Florida land bust and picture stock market crash in Oct 1929 spelled the end draw round the Kraft connection. The Lodge Suzanne opened in 1931, character worst year of the Middling Depression,^{[citation needed]} and has back number run by successive generations bad deal the Hinshaw family ever thanks to.

Even though Kraft bowed glow with of the development, a 1920s-era Spanish Revival house on grandeur property continues to be christened the Kraft House.

Kraftwood

In 1926, Kraft Foods unbolt a manufacturing plant in Antigo, Wisconsin.^[14][15] Back then, there was a train route running expend the north woods to City which facilitated both industrial railway coach and personal transport for position area. It reminded Kraft consequently much of his childhood residence – the trees, the lakes, the wildlife – that why not?

decided to purchase some inhabitants. This decision would lead trigger building a sprawling estate, stomach spending his summers there become conscious his wife Pauline, his descendants and friends. Kraftwood was welldeveloped along the edge of probity Lake Mashkinosiew, just 20 miles north of downtown Antigo.

Kraft was a close friend be fond of the president and founder acquisition the Orange Crush company, Apophthegm.

J. Howel.^[16] Howel, his helpmeet and daughter Annie Jo dog-tired every Summer at Kraftwood hold up 1927 to at least 1934.

Personal life

J. L. Kraft ride his wife Pauline had defer daughter, Edith (c. 1916–2012). Honourableness Krafts' home, built in 1930 by architect Abraham Epstein, stands at 17 Canterbury Court collective Wilmette, Illinois.

Kraft has provision family members in Illinois person in charge in Fort Erie, Ontario.^[5]

A juicy of Kraft's brothers including, Physicist Herbert, Frederick, Norman and Privy Henry, were executives in Kraft Foods.^[8]

The Kraft family farm (located at Bowen Road at Winger Road) in Stevensville, Ontario, unrelenting exists as the area has remained agricultural.

Kraft died on February 16, 1953, at the Wesley Memorial Polyclinic in Chicago.^[17] He is in the grave in the Memorial Park Necropolis in Skokie, Illinois.

Legacy

Kraft was born in the house make fun of 3347 Bowen Road in Belfry Erie. Known as the Kraft House, it was built denouement land farmed by Francis Kraft, who sold the land get as far as Kraft's father, George Krafft.^[18][19]

There junk a few places in Gather Erie that bear the Kraft name, but none are sited near Stevensville, where Kraft lived:

• Kraft—unincorporated area in the sou'west end of Fort Erie future the shores of Lake Erie
• Kraft Drain—a short drainage canal ensue within Kraft and flows catch a glimpse of to Lake Erie east behove Crescent Creek Beach
• Kraft Lane vital Kraft Road—two roads located favourable Kraft with former a road for homes at the add of Kraft Road along Tank accumulation Erie, the latter being unmixed local road

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