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The product gained in popularity and quickly became Reese's primary focus. During World War IIeconomic constraints and scarcity of materials led him to discontinue his other candies. Inthe five-cent cup was introduced and as packaging machine and plant automation were placed into production, the sales of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups doubled every four years.

Before Reese died inhe began construction of a second plant located at Reese Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania. After a short illness, H. Reese died of a heart attack eight days before his 77th birthday, on May 16,at the St. His residence at the time of his death was located at Linden Road in Hershey, Pennsylvania. On July 2, seven years after the death of H.

At the time of its merger, the H. Reese Candy Company was celebrating its 40th Anniversary and had just addedsquare feet of new state-of-the-art manufacturing capacity to its Reese Avenue plant in Hershey. Furthermore, back inthe H. Reese Candy Company plant added yet anothersquare feet of manufacturing space in order to begin production of the Kit Kat for sale in the United States which had U.

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He was born in York County, Pennsylvania on an agricultural and dairy farm. ByH. He first moved to Hershey, Pennsylvania inwhere he enjoyed a relatively prosperous job on a dairy farm owned by The Hershey Company until the farm was closed by Hershey's. Not long after moving his family to Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, Reese moved back to Hershey, again working for Hershey's.

Always an entrepreneur and inspired by his work, Reese began experimenting with candies in his basement, by he created the H. Blair, of Derby Presbyterian Church, Hershey, will officiate at the funeral at 2 p. Monday at the church. Burial will be in Hershey Cemetery. We are featuring this profile in the Connection Finder this week.

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