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H. J. and Sarah Heinz
Howard and Elizabeth Rust Heinz
H. J. “Jack” Heinz II and Joan Diehl
Clifford and Vira Heinz

H. J. and Sarah Heinz

H. J. Heinz was born in 1844 in the Birmingham section of Pittsburgh, the son of Anna Margaretha and John Henry Heinz. His father ran a brickyard in Sharpsburg; part of that property was used as a household garden by his mother.

At the age of 14, Henry was already tending his own section of the garden and was developing a list of customers. He attended Duff’s Mercantile College and thoroughly familiarized himself with good, sound business practices. Soon, he began peddling prepared horseradish.

By 1869, Heinz was ready to formalize his business and did so by entering a partnership with L. Clarence Noble and forming Heinz & Noble. Their first product was, of course, horseradish, sold in clear bottles to prove that, unlike some foods, it was totally unadulterated. In the same year, he married Sarah Sloan Young, known as Sallie, who was a first-generation American, her family hailing fr

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Henry J. Heinz

American businessman (1844–1919)

For other people named Henry Heinz, see Henry Heinz (disambiguation).

Henry John Heinz (October 11, 1844^[1] – May 14, 1919) was an American entrepreneur who co-founded the H. J. Heinz Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He was involved in the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. Many of his descendants are known for philanthropy and involvement in politics and public affairs. His fortune became the basis for the Heinz Foundations.

Early life

Henry John Heinz was born in Birmingham, Pennsylvania to John Henry Heinz (1811–1891) and Anna Margaretha Schmidt (1822–1899). John Henry was born Johann Heinrich Heinz to parents Johann Georg and Charlotte Louisa (née Trump) Heinz in Kallstadt of the Palatinate, which at that time was part of the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1840, John Henry emigrated to Birmingham, where he got a job making bricks and then met and married Anna in 1843, who herself had recently emigrated from Kruspis [de] (today a part of Haunetal), Hesse-Kassel.^[2]^[3

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The Ellis School

“This is no fairy story and no joke; the meat would be shoveled into carts and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one.” That was the standard of the food processing industry, as described by Upton Sinclair in The Jungle,¹ at the dawn of the 20th century: an age blemished by sweatshops, firetrap factories, callous indifference to industrial accidents, and many filthy food processing plants.² During this same period, however, H.J. Heinz, a food manufacturing entrepreneur, became a model of enlightenment for his pristine factories and his benevolent treatment of workers. But, first and foremost, Heinz was a businessman who was always searching for new ways to place his products above those of his competitors.³ So at a time when the nation’s awareness of the need for governmental regulation of the food industry was growing because of vivid descriptions similar to Sinclair’s,⁴ Heinz’s strong moral beliefs co