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Ruth was born in East Walpole, MA
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Ruth started education at Framington state college
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Ruth got married to a man named Kenneth Donald.
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Ruth and her husband bought a toll house and soon later it was a restrant.
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In the toll house Ruth was making cookies and
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Ruth and Ken were broken into on 2-9-35
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Ruth was making her famous Butter Drop Dough cookies, and Ruth was in a hurry and out of baking chocolate and so instead of that cut up peices of Nestles Semi-Sweet chocolate bar. Stirred the small pieces whole andshe thought it would melt as normal bakking choclate but it didn't melt. When they where done baking they became popular and Ruth decied to call them Toll House cookies
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Nestle began to pay to run the recipe as advertorial in the newspapers
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Ruth retired to Duxbury, PLymoth County, Massachussets
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The wakefields sold the Inn in 1966.
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On October 1, 1977 Ruth died
