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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Colonel Sanders Born Harland David Sanders September 9, 1890 Henryville, Indiana, U. S. Died December 16, 1980( maturated90) Louisville, Kentucky, U. S. serveof death Pneumonia Nationality Ameri poop Education School dropout1 Occupation Entrepreneur jury memberof Kentucky heat up fearful(founder) Religion Disciples of Christ Spouse(s) Josephine King (divorced) Claudia Price Children Harland David Sanders, junior Margaret Sanders Mildred Sanders Ruggles Parents Wilbur David Sanders Margaret Ann Sanders(nee Dunlevy)2 Signature ColonelaHarland David Sanders(September 9, 1890 December 16, 1980) was anAmericanbusinessman and restaurateur who founded theKentucky fried bellyacher (KFC)restaurant chain. Sanders passed done several professions in his lifetime, with mixed advantage. He first served his fried wimp in 1930 in the midst of theGreat Depressionat agas shoeshe owned inNorth Corbin, a small city on the edge of theAppalachian Mountai nsin repayable south eastern Kentucky. With a flair for promotion and dedication to providing quality loyal food, Sanders oversaw his exemption in becoming one of the largest in the world.His likeness appears on their boxes to this day, and a stylized graphic of his face is a trademark of the corporation. contents * 1Early Life * 2Early jobs * 3 course * 4 demolition and legacy * 5Footnotes * 6Further learning * 7External links - Early Life Harland Sanders at age 20 Sanders was born on 9 September 1890 in a thin-walled, four room shack on a untaught route three miles east ofHenryville, Indiana. 3He was the oldest of three children born to Wilbur David and Margaret Ann Sanders. 3Sanders was of Irish descent. 4 Sanders perplex was a mild and affectionate man who tried to make a living as a farmer, but fell and broke his tolerate and a leg and had to give it up. 3For two age he exerted as a butcher in Henryville. 3One subsequentlynoon in the summertime of 1895 he came kins folk with a fever and died later on that day. 3Sanders mother took work in a tomato-canning factory, and the young Harland was required to cook for his family. 3 Sanders dropped out of school day when he was 12. 5When his mother remarried in 1902 his stepfather beat him.So then(prenominal), with his mothers approval, he left home to live with his uncle inAlbany. 6 - Early jobs Sanders falsified his date of birth and enlisted in the unify States Army at the age of fifteen, completing his service commitment as a mule handler in Cuba. 6He was honorably fulfil after four months and made his way toSheffield, Alabamawhere an uncle lived. 6It so happened that his crony Clarence had also made his way there, in order to avoid his stepfather. 6During his primaeval years, Sanders held many jobs, including steamboat pilot, insurance salesman, railroad fireman and farmer. 7 Sanders married Josephine King in 1908 and started a family, but after his boss fired him for insubordination era h e was on a trip, Josephine stopped writing him letters. He then learned that Josephine had left him, given away all their furniture and nursing home goods, and taken the children back to her parentss home. Josephine s brother wrote Sanders a letter saying, She had no business marrying a no-good fellow like you who cant hold a job. He had a son, Harland, Jr. , who died at an early age, and two daughters, Margaret Sanders and Mildred Sanders Ruggles. 89 - Career Sanders remains the official face of Kentucky heat Chicken, and appears on its logo TherestaurantinCorbin, Kentuckywhere Colonel Sanders genuine Kentucky Fried Chicken Colonel Harland Sanders, in character In 1930 Sanders opened aservice stationinCorbin, Kentuckywhere he cooked cowardly dishes and other meals such ascountry hamandsteaksfor customers. 10Since he did not have a restaurant, he served customers in his adjacent living quarters. His local popularity grew, and Sanders moved to a motel and 142 seat restaurant, lat erHarland Sanders cafe and Museum. Over the next nine years he developed his secret recipe for frying chicken in a pressure level fryerthat cooked the chicken much faster thanpan frying. In 1939 food tyroDuncan Hinesvisited Sanderss restaurant incognito and was so impressed he listed the grade in Adventures in Good Eating, his famous guide to restaurants throughout the US.As his success grew, Sanders played a more active role in civil life, joining theRotary Club, the chamber of commerce, and theFreemasons. 11In 1947 he and Josephine divorced, and in 1949 he married his secretary Claudia, as he had long desired. 12He was re-commissioned as a Kentucky colonel in 1949 by his friend, GovernorLawrence Wetherby. 13 Around 1950, Sanders began developing his characteristic appearance, gro university extension his trademark mustache and goatee and donning a white suit and draw and quarter tie. 13He never wore anything else in public during the last 20 years of his life, using a heavy w ool suit in the spend and a light cotton suit in the summer. 7He dark-skinned his moustache and goatee to match his white hair. 12 At age 65, Sanders store having failed7due to the newInterstate 75reducing his restaurants customer traffic, he took $ one hundred five from his firstSocial Securitycheck and began visiting potential franchisees. 14 The franchise approach was successful, and less than ten years later (in 1964) Sanders old the Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation for $2 million to a partnership of Kentucky businessmen headed byJohn Y. Brown, Jr. The deal did not include the Canadian operations. In 1965 Sanders moved toMississauga,Ontarioto oversee his Canadian franchises and continued to collect franchise and appearance fees there and appearance fees in the U. S. (He was locally active. For example, his 80th birthday was held at theInn on the ParkinNorth York, Ontario, hosted byJerry Lewisas aCanadian Muscular Dystrophy Associationfundraiser. 15In September 1970 he and h is wife werebaptizedin theJordan River. 16He befriended billy club GrahamandJerry Fal substantially. 16 In 1973, he suedHeublein Inc. then parent company of Kentucky Fried Chicken over alleged misuse of his image in promoting products he had not helped develop. In 1975, Heublein Inc. unsuccessfully sued Sanders for libel after he publically described their gravy as wallpaper paste to which sludge was added. 17 - Death and legacy Gravesite of Harland Sanders.Sanders later used his stockholdings to create the Colonel Harland Sanders Trust and Colonel Harland Sanders kind-hearted Organization, which used the proceeds to aid charities and fund scholarships. His trusts continue to donate money to groups like theTrillium health Care Centre a wing of their building specializes in womens and childrens care and has been named after him. 18TheSidney, British Columbiaestablish foundation granted over $1,000,000 in 2007, according to its 2007 tax return. 19 Sanders died at the Jewish Hospit al20inLouisville, Kentucky, of pneumonia on December 16, 1980. 2122He had been diagnosed with acute leukemia the previous(prenominal) June. 8His body lay in state in the rotunda of theKentucky State Capitol after a funeral service at the due southern Baptist SeminaryChapel attended by more than 1,000 people. He was buried in his characteristic white suit and morose western string tie inCave Hill burial sitein Louisville. Since his death, Sanders has been portrayed by voice actors in Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials in radio and an animated version of him has been used for television commercials.The NipponeseNippon Professional Baseballleague has developed anurban legendof the disgust of the Colonel. A statue of Colonel Sanders was thrown into the river and lost during a 1985 fan celebration, and (according to the legend) the horror has caused JapansHanshin Tigersto transact poorly since the incident. 23 A manuscript of a book on cooking, which Sanders plain wrote in the mid -1960s, has been found in KFC archives. It includes some cooking recipes from Sanders as well as stories. KFC plans to try some of the recipes, and to offer the book online. 24 - Footnotes 1. Sanders was given the honorary title Kentucky Colonel in 1935 byGovernorRuby Laffoon. 1. Seven man Figures Who Drop Out Of The school, Sevenrare. com. 2. Harlan Sanders Family Tree. www. genealogy. com. Retrieved 2009-03-09. 3. abcdefThe Human Tradition in the refreshful reciprocal ohm By throng C. Klotter 130 4. http//www. kentuckyfriedchicken. com/about/pdf/50th_anniversary. pdf 5. http//www. colonelsanders. com/ 6. abcdThe Human Tradition in the New South By James C.Klotter 131 7. abcOzersky, Josh (2010-09-15). KFCs Colonel Sanders He Was Real, non Just an Icon. Time. Retrieved 2010-09-18. 8. abEdith Evans Asbury (1980-12-17). Col. Harland Sanders, Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Dies Obituary. The New York Times p. A33. 9. Josh Kegley,Daughter of Colonel Sanders dies at age 91,Lexing ton Herald-Leader, September 25, 2010. 10. KFC. co. uk about Us KFC History 11. The Human Tradition in the New South By James C. Klotter 138. 12. abThe Human Tradition in the New South By James C. Klotter 142 13. abKFC Colonel Sanders Cafe & Museum Americas First Kentucky Fried Chicken. Corbinkentucky. us. 1964-02-18. Retrieved 2010-07-30. 14. Ive Got A Secretinterview, originally carry April 6, 1964 (rebroadcast by GSN March 30, 2008). 15. Dinner for Col. Sanders. Toronto Star(Toronto ON) p. 23. 10 July 1970. 16. abThe Human Tradition in the New South By James C. Klotter 153 17. Kleber, John E. Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison, and James C. Klotter (June 1992). The Kentucky Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky. p. 796. ISBN0-8131-1772-0. 18. About Us Tillium Health Center.Trilliumhealthcentre. org. Retrieved 2010-07-30. 19. Harland Sanders Foundation on the CRA web site 20. Col. Sanders, fried chicken king, dead Chicago Tribune (1963-Current file) Chicago, Ill 17 De c 1980 5. 21. Milestones. Time. 1980-12-29. Retrieved 2008-05-19. 22. Col. Sanders, 90, Dies of Pneumonia. The Washington Post. 1980-12-17. 23. White, Paul (2003-08-21). The Colonels curse runs deep. USA Today. Retrieved 2009-05-28. 24. Schreiner, Bruce (2011-11-10). Colonel Sanders harbored more than one secret. News & Record. Associated Press. 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