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Colonel Harland Sanders is Born
"Colonel" Harland Sanders was born in Henryville, Indiana, in the United States. He was the oldest of three children born of his parents Wilbur David and Margaret Ann Sanders https://www.biography.com/business-figure/colonel-harland-sanders#:~:text=Early%20Life%20and%20Career,his%20younger%20brother%20and%20sister. -
Various Jobs
In 1906 he got his mothers approval to move out to live with his uncle in New Albany, Indiana. His uncle worked at a streetcar company, and got Sanders a job there. He worked as a fireman at the age of 16 .He worked as a fireman for nearly three years until he was fired for "insubordination" after he got very sick. https://www.biography.com/business-figure/colonel-harland-sanders#:~:text=Early%20Life%20and%20Career,his%20younger%20brother%20and%20sister. -
Army
Harland joined the Army Sanders falsified the day he was born. He was a Wagoneer in Cuba. In February 1907 he was honorably discharged. https://www.biography.com/business-figure/colonel-harland-sanders#:~:text=Early%20Life%20and%20Career,his%20younger%20brother%20and%20sister. -
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Sanders gets married
When Sanders was working at the Norfolk and Western Railway he met Josephine King from Jasper Alabama. They got married shortly afterwards. They went on and had a son named Harland Jr. who died in 1932 from tonsils that were infected, and two daughters Margaret Sanders and Mildred Sanders Ruggles. He studied law for 4 years after https://www.biography.com/business-figure/colonel-harland-sanders#:~:text=Early%20Life%20and%20Career,his%20younger%20brother%20and%20sister. -
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Ferry Boat company
In 1920, Sanders est. a ferry boat company, which operated a boat on the Ohio River between Jeffersonville and Louisville. He canvassed for funding, becoming a minority shareholder himself, and was made secretary of the company. The ferry was an instant success. Around 1922 he took a job as secretary at the Chamber of Commerce in Columbus, Indiana. he said it wasnt a very good job. https://www.biography.com/business-figure/colonel-harland-sanders#:~:text=Early%20Life%20and%20Career,hi -
Food Business
In 1930, the Shell Oil Company gave Sanders a service station in North Corbin, Kentucky rent free, in return for paying the company a percentage of sales. Sanders served chicken dishes and other meals such as country ham and steaks https://www.biography.com/business-figure/colonel-harland-sanders#:~:text=Early%20Life%20and%20Career,his%20younger%20brother%20and%20sister. -
Shootout
I during this period that Sanders was involved in a shootout with Matt Stewart, a local competitor. over the repainting of a sign bringing traffic to his station. Stewart killed a Shell employee who was with Sanders and was convicted of murder eliminating Sanders's competition (hooray). Sanders was commissioned as a Kentucky colonel in 1935 by Kentucky governor Ruby Laffoon. His popularity with locals grew. https://vault.fbi.gov/Colonel%20Harlan%20Sanders -
Secret Recipe and Sucess
By July 1940, Sanders had finished his "Secret Recipe" for frying chicken in a pressure fryer that cooked the chicken faster than pan frying. In 1952, Sanders franchised his secret recipe "Kentucky Fried Chicken". Product sales tripled. and they coined the name Kentucky fried chicken several other restaurant owners franchised the concept and paid Sanders $0.04 per chicken. the rapid expansion became overwhelming for sanders. so he sold the company for 2 million (16 million today). -
Colonel Harland Sanders Passes Away at the age of 90
Sanders was diagnosed with acute leukemia in June 1980.
