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Definition of Hershey

1. Noun. United States confectioner and philanthropist who created the model industrial town of Hershey, Pennsylvania; founded an industrial school for orphan boys (1857-1945).

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Literary usage of Hershey

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits: A by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1897)
"In 1875 she went to Chicago and founded the Hershey School of Musical Art with WSB Mathews ... She is a daughter of the late Benjamin and Elizabeth Hershey. ..."

2. Courts and Lawyers of Pennsylvania: A History, 1623-1923 by Frank Marshall Eastman (1922)
"Mr. Hershey has not permitted other interests to engage his attention, and his success in ... Mr. Hershey is a member of the Dauphin County Bar Association, ..."

3. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1919)
"By Amos S. Hershey and Susanne W. Hershey. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1919, pp. 382. In denning the means through which the cause of peace ..."

4. A Treatise on International Law: With an Introductory Essay on the by Roland Roberts Foulke (1920)
"Khanates of Khiva and Bokhara—Russia; Hershey, Int. L., (1912) 108. Korea—Japan; Hershey, Int. L. ... Tunis and its Bey and France, a protectorate; Hershey, ..."

5. Daytrips Pennsylvania Dutch Country and Philadelphia: 50 One Day Adventures by Earl Steinbicker (1999)
"Hershey is nothing if not touristy, but that won't stop you from having a good time. The chocolate empire started in 1903 by ..."

6. Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society by Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa (1916)
"Hershey, AMOS A., xix, 50. Hershey, ANDREW, xx, 180, 190. Hershey, BENJAMIN, xi, 304. Hershey, CHRISTIAN, xiv, 54; xx, 163, 180, 190. Hershey ..."

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