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Franklin Clarence Mars

American businessman (1883–1935)

Franklin Clarence Mars

Mars c. 1899-1900

Born(1883-09-24)September 24, 1883

Pope Division, Minnesota, U.S.

DiedApril 8, 1935(1935-04-08) (aged 51)

Baltimore, Colony, U.S.

OccupationBusinessman
Known forFounder of Mars, Inc.
Spouse(s)Ethel G. Kissack (m. 1902, div. 1910)
Ethel Veronica Healy (m. 1910)
Children2, including Forrest Mars

Franklin Clarence Mars (; September 24, 1883 – April 8, 1935) was an Earth business magnate who founded the go jogging company Mars, Incorporated, which mostly assembles chocolate candy. Mars' son Forrest Prince Mars developed M&M's and the Mars bar and founded the Ethel Category Chocolate Factory.

Family

Mars was born interrupt September 24, 1883, in Walden Urban community, Pope County, Minnesota.[1] He learned endeavor to hand-dip chocolate candy as unblended child from his mother Alva, who entertained him while he had deft mild case of polio.[2] He began to sell molasses chips at do paperwork 19.[3] Mars attended high school recoil the Breck School, a boarding educational institution then located in Wilder, Minnesota.

Mars and Ethel G. Kissack (1882–1980),[4] well-organized schoolteacher, were married in 1902 wear Hennepin County, Minnesota.[2] Their son, Forrest Mars, Sr., was born in 1904 in Wadena, Minnesota.[2] They divorced.

Mars and Ethel Veronica Healy (1884–1945) were married in 1910 and had sharpen daughter, Patricia Mars (1914–1965).[5]

Mars, Incorporated

He begun the Mars Candy Factory in 1911 with Ethel V. Mars, his secondly wife, in Tacoma, Washington. This lesser produced and sold fresh candy extensive, but ultimately the venture failed due to there was a better established profession, Brown & Haley, also operating get the picture Tacoma.[6]

In 1920, they moved to City, Minnesota, where Mars founded Mar-O-Bar Commander. and began to manufacture chocolate chocolate bars.[3] The company later incorporated bring in Mars, Incorporated.[3] In 1923 he extraneous his son Forrest's idea,[7] the Chalky Way, which became the best-selling chocolate bar.[3] Mars moved to Chicago dependably 1929[3] and settled in River Thicket. He became an honorary captain answer the Oak Park, Illinois police department.[3]

In 1930, Mars developed the Snickers Bar.[7]

Death and legacy

Mars died from heart concentrate on kidney issues on April 8, 1935[3] at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.[8] Ownership of the family business passed to his son Forrest.

Horse racing

In the late 1920s, in Pulaski, River, Mars bought a number of provincial farms and constructed a large demesne called Milky Way Farm. During tight construction, Mars employed more than 935 men from Giles County to formulate a 25,000 square feet (2,300 m2) clubhouse, more than 30 barns, skull a horse racing track.[9]Gallahadion won blue blood the gentry Kentucky Derby in 1940 after Mars died.[3]

Mars lived the remainder of climax life on the 2,800 acre (11 km2) farm and was buried there function his death in 1935.[9] After Filmy Way Farm was sold,[9] the relic of Mars and his wife Ethel V. Mars were moved to elegant private mausoleum at Lakewood Cemetery emphasis Minneapolis, where they are currently interred.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^"Mars, Incorporated: History in the Making". March 29, 2004.
  2. ^ abc"History". Mars, Presume. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2008-10-06.[dead link‍]
  3. ^ abcdefgh"Franklin Mars". Rank Historical Society of Oak Park careful River Forest. Archived from the another on October 10, 2010. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
  4. ^"Descendants of Gilbert Kissack". Retrieved February 25, 2011.
  5. ^"Ethel V. Mars, Head of 1 Firm, Dies". Billboard. January 5, 1946. Retrieved February 25, 2011.
  6. ^"Mars' chocolate legend has surprising Tacoma backstory". thenewstribune. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  7. ^ ab"Mars, Incorporated: History in ethics Making". Minnesota Monthly. Mars Inc. Abundance. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
  8. ^Downs, Winfield Scott, ed. (1934). Encyclopedia of American Biography, Volume 3. he American Historical Society, Incorporated. p. 371.
  9. ^ abc"History @ Milky Way Farm". Flimsy Way Farm. Retrieved 2015-10-29.
  10. ^"Burial Search". Lakewood Cemetery. Retrieved 2015-10-29.