Help us find and improve next week's Connection Finder profiles: Candy Makers [closed]

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With Easter soon upon us, eggs, especially Cadbury eggs, are popping up everywhere. This week we're featuring the Cadbury chocolate and cocoa company's founder, John Cadbury, next week in the Connection Finder along with other candy makers and confectioners.

Here's who we're getting started on:

Can you help with these profiles, or expand their families? Adding relatives in any direction helps with connections. Every missing relative you add will make our connections to them closer.

Who else should we feature? Do they need a profile?

All profiles we feature need a good biography and a connection to the big tree. We also want each one to have an image, and the image needs to have proper source attribution explaining why it's in the public domain or why we have the right to display it.

We can't feature everyone mentioned (we only have room for eleven per week), but if we don't feature a profile you work on, we may use it sometime in the future. And, of course, all contributions help improve our shared tree.

We'll make a final decision on which ones to feature early next week.

Please reply here with what you're working on so that we don't duplicate our efforts. Thank you!

WikiTree profile: John Cadbury
closed with the note: Feature: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1402817/which-candy-maker-are-you-most-closely-connected-to
in The Tree House by Abby Glann G2G6 Pilot (734k points)
closed by Abby Glann
BTW, did you know that John Cadbury's second wife was called Candia? :)
Well, that's a fun coincidence!

17 Answers

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Abel Hoadley — English-born Australian.  Has pic, has bio, is Connected.  Just some of the Hoadley confections are/were the — Polly Waffle, Violet Crumble, Arctic Mints, Bertie Beetle, White Knight.

by Melanie Paul G2G6 Pilot (422k points)
Thanks, Melanie.
+14 votes
by Rodney Long G2G6 Pilot (872k points)
Thanks, Rodney.
+12 votes

Adolf Ahlgren is connected in more than one way and has a portrait. At the moment his bio does not say anything about the candy factory, but that will be fixed.

Ahlgrens bilar is fun kiddie candy. Looks from Wikipedia as if Läkerol is more internationally known.

by Eva Ekeblad G2G6 Pilot (573k points)
Thanks, Eva.
+14 votes
Samuel Bernstein later known as Sam Born was an 18-year-old Ukrainian immigrant when he came to the United States in 1909.  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bernstein-527 On his immigration record, Sam indicated that he was a candy maker. Sam's success is an incredible immigrant story.  His inventions included mechanically inserting sticks on lollypops, chocolate coating and jimmies on ice cream, and the mass production of Peeps marshmallow candy. The Just Born candy company that he started is now the 10th largest candy company in the United States. Sam's profile is connected and the profile includes his bio with pictures.  I hope that you include Sam.
by Russell Butler G2G6 Pilot (139k points)
edited by Russell Butler
Thanks, Russell. My kids are big fans of peeps, but only because they are wonderful roasted like marshmallows over a campfire :-)
+14 votes
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ganong-41 Gilbert Ganong and brother James https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ganong-12 founders of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganong_Bros., Canada's oldest candy company.  Both are connected.
by S Williams G2G1 (1.9k points)
Thanks, S.
+12 votes
by S Stevenson G2G6 Pilot (250k points)
Thanks, S. I have those lists handy if we don't get enough input here.
+9 votes

A couple of other Australian confectioners - 

Macpherson Robertson - of MacRobertson's Chocolates - famous for Freddo Frogs and Cherry Ripes... yumm. Profile is connected and has bio but needs an image.

A W Allen - Allen's Sweets, including Minties, Jaffas, Fantales. Profile is connected but needs work on the biography and a picture. 

by Gillian Thomas G2G6 Pilot (266k points)
Macpherson Robertson now has an image, so I'll look for one for Allen.
Alfred W Allen also now has an image.
Alf Allen now has a biography - so all three (pic, bio, Connected) are good to go.
Thanks, Gillian and Melanie.
+14 votes

Cornelis Jamin was a Dutch candy maker, who started selling on the street and slowly expanded his business. At his death he owned a chain of 50 stores. This chain (Jamin) still exists and is now "hofleverancier" (Royal warrant of appointment).

Addition: I've added a photo and an English translation of the biography.

by Koen van Hoof G2G6 Mach 7 (73.5k points)
edited by Koen van Hoof
Thanks, Koen.
+13 votes
One of the three brothers "van Melle". Founders of van Melle's biscuit- en toffeefabrieken N.V. te Rotterdam. They made Fruitella en Mentos

Dirk Machiel van Melle https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Melle-11

Pieter Cornelis van Melle https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Melle-10

Izaak van Melle https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Melle-19
by Elsa van der Velde G2G6 Mach 3 (33.6k points)
Thanks, Elsa.
+12 votes

Mary See is now connected.  Her husband's father David already had a connected profile.  It was one of those horrible GEDCOM ones, to which I quickly added some sources.  I'd be pleased if someone would check and improve my work.

It would be great for Mary See to be included.  Many Californians still won't let a major holiday pass without some See's candy around.

by Steve Ryan G2G6 Mach 8 (82.8k points)
Agreed!
Thanks, Steve!
+10 votes

Karol (Karl) Wedel is probably the most known Polish candymaker

by Artur Lange G2G1 (1.7k points)
Thank you, Artur.
+9 votes

Joseph Fry some of my favourite chocolates (or was) taken over by Cadbury (I think) and though some have reappeared and others are released on limited edition.  

by Heather Jenkinson G2G6 Pilot (127k points)

I remember the company name becoming "Cadbury Fry Pascall Schweppes" at some point, then it was Kraft Foods, now Mondelez International.  In June 1922 they were advertising in Launceston (Tasmania, not England) as Cadbury-Fry-Pascall.  (Schweppes still have the BEST (non-American style) lemonade out there.)

Thanks, Heather.
+8 votes

Cant find Felix Vanparys so might not have a profile, they are still in production and have a website - it appears to be in flemish or dutch (I think) 

by Heather Jenkinson G2G6 Pilot (127k points)
Thanks, Heather. If you still haven't found one, please feel free to create one!
+10 votes

Chocolatiers in Brussels, Belgium:
Can't find Charles Neuhaus who founded Côte d'Or in 1883 in Schaerbeek, Belgium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B4te_d%27Or_(chocolate)

Nor can I find the founder of Neuhaus: Jean Neuhaus was a Swiss with Italian roots. From pharmacist to Chocolatier. Jean's family changed its name from "Casanova" to "Neuhaus". Neuhaus Boutique in Brussels, Belgium
https://www.neuhauschocolates.com/en_US/our-story/ourstory.html

by Nele De Moor G2G5 (5.9k points)
Thanks, Nele. It would be a great idea to create profiles for them so they might be featured in the future.

Made a profile for Charles Neuhaus: Neuhaus-297
For Jean Neuhaus I dont know If I need to make a profile for Casanova or Neuhaus so I created one for his grandson Jean Neuhaus Jr Neuhaus-298 and his wife Louise Agostini Agostini-220 as a starting point
 

+7 votes

Frank C. Mars and Bruce Murrie? (Founders of the M&M candies)

by Candyce Fulford G2G6 Pilot (118k points)
Thanks, Candyce and Melanie.
+7 votes

Leonidas Kestekides doesn't have a profile yet; he was the founder of the Leonidas chocolate company in Belgium.

by Sharon Casteel G2G6 Pilot (165k points)
Thanks, Sharon. Be sure to create one for him so we might add him to a feature in the future.
+8 votes

David L. Clark: Clark Bar & Zagnut His profile has images of him and is attached.

by Lincoln Lowery G2G6 Mach 6 (67.6k points)
Famous NB candy makers.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ganong-12

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ganong-41

They're already on the list. Thanks
Thanks, Lincoln.

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