Catherine Elizabeth (Sweeney) Hershey (1872 - 1915)

Born 6 Jul 1872 in Jamestown, New York, USA

Wife of Milton Snavely Hershey — married 25 May 1898 in New York, New York

Died 25 Mar 1915 at age 42 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Her health did not allow her to have children. This was the reason she and Milton decided to found and endow the Milton Hershey School. This school is the largest tuition-free K-12 private school in the US. It accepts boys and girls from broken families and gives them a world-class education. Since its founding over 100 years ago it has changed the lives of thousands of needy children.

Kitty took ill with a rare neurological disease. She grew increasingly weaker as she fought the illness with traditional and nontraditional remedies. During her illness, her husband Milton brought roses for her every day. When she died in 1915 at the age of 42, her nurse reported that Hershey was "like a madman."^[1]

see: www.hersheys.com/discover/milton/wife.asp

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/the-chocolate-king-7559

• "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJG-TP3V : 4 September 2015), Catherine in entry for Milton S Hershey, 1912; citing Passport Application, France, source certificate #85031, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, 173, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,510,138.

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