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Fifteen years younger than her husband, Catherine Hershey developed an undiagnosable illness circa 1901, and was increasingly sickly for years.

Hershey ’ s father, Henry, had been highly intelligent, but not too realistic ; his get-rich schemes never worked too well.

Hershey did not cope well with the instability ; he had attended seven different schools, yet never made it into the fifth grade, so when Kitty was unable to bear children, the Hersheys decided to give needy kids the kind of upbringing he never had.

Milton and Catherine Hershey established a home and a school for “ poor, healthy white, male orphans between the ages of 8 through 18 years of age .”