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   My Featured Connections for Easter weekend are candy makers such as John   
   Cadbury.   
      
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   29 degrees from Adolf Ahlgren   
   Developed a gelatin and gum arabic-based confectionery, by way of a successful    
   introduction of a mouth water from a German recipe, named Lÿkerol, and then a   
   cough    
   drop with the same taste and name.   
      
   26 degrees from Sam Born   
   In 1923, he founded the Just Born company in Brooklyn, New York; a candy    
   manufacturer that still manufactures Peeps, Mike and Ike, and Hot Tamales. In   
   his 1924    
   declaration for immigration purposes, he indicated he was a chocolate   
   manufacturer.   
      
   22 degrees from John Cadbury   
   English proprietor and founder of Cadbury. He developed an emulsification   
   process to    
   make solid chocolate - creating the modern chocolate bar.   
      
   22 degrees from Domingo Ghirardelli   
   When the Gold Rush hit California, Domingo went to America and opened his   
   first store    
   in a mining camp where he stocked the shelves with chocolate. In 1852, he   
   founded a    
   confectionery shop in San Francisco which later became known as the   
   Ghirardelli    
   Chocolate Company   
      
   17 degrees from Milton Hershey   
   Developed a candy-making facility in Derry Church. It opened in 1905, setting   
   a new    
   course for Hershey and the candy industry and he became the first person in   
   America to    
   mass produce milk chocolate products commercially.   
      
   28 degrees from Abel Hoadley   
   Manufactured an individual honeycomb bar, the "Violet Crumble"   
      
   30 degrees from Cornelis Jamin   
   Cornelis started as street salesman in candy. He expanded this business to the   
   candy    
   store chain Jamin. At the end of his life he owned 50 candy stores.   
      
   34 degrees from Henri Nestlÿ   
   Produced ingredients (cow's milk, cereal flour, malt or potassium carbonate)   
   already    
   known to doctors and pharmacists at the time, but it was only Henri Nestlÿ who   
   could    
   process them into a durable powder.   
      
   19 degrees from Harry Burnett Reese   
   Was an American inventor and businessman known for creating the No. 1 selling   
   candy    
   brand in the United States, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and founding the H.B.   
   Reese    
   Candy Company.   
      
   22 degrees from Mary See   
   Mary See had developed the recipes that became the foundation of the See's   
   candy    
   business while helping run her husband's hotel on Tremont Island in Ontario.    
      
   29 degrees from Izaak van Melle   
   Started a small factory for the production of sugar confectionery in Breskens,   
   diagonally    
   opposite his father's bakery. In 1932 the brothers Machiel and Pierre van   
   Melle bought    
   the rights to produce the soft fruit caramel - now known as Fruittella.   
      
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