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Catherine "Kitty" Hershey |
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Catherine "Kitty" Hershey was an American philanthropist
who helped found the Milton Hershey School for orphans.
She was the wife of Milton Hershey, pioneering
founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company.
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Full or original name at birth: Catherine Elizabeth Sweeney
Date and place of birth: July 6, 1871,
Jamestown, New York, U.S.A.
Date, time, place and cause of death: March 25,
1915, at 2:00 p.m., Bellevue Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A. (Pneumonia/Muscular disease)
Marriage
Husband: Milton Hershey
(m. May 25, 1898 - March 25, 1915) (her death)
Wedding took place in the rectory of St. Patrick's Cathedral,
New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Parents
Father: Michael William Sweeney
Mother: Catherine Elizabeth Maloney
Burial site: Hershey Cemetery, Hershey, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.*
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* Initially she was buried in the West Laurel
Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In April
1919, Milton Hershey had her remains brought from
Philadelphia and re-interred in the Hershey family
plot that later was expanded to become the Hershey
Cemetery in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
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