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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(aged90) Louisville, Kentucky, U. S. Causeof death Pneumonia Nationality American Education School dropout1 Occupation Entrepreneur notice memberof Kentucky Fried bellyacher(founder) Religion Disciples of Christ Spouse(s) Josephine might (divorced) Claudia Price Children Harland David Sanders, Jr. 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 Chicken (KFC)restaurant chain. Sanders passed through both(prenominal)(prenominal) professions in his lifetime, with mixed conquest. He first served his fried chicken in 1930 in the midst of theGreat Depressionat agas stakehe owned inNorth Corbin, a small city on the edge of theAppalac hian Mountainsin south eastern Kentucky. With a ardour for promotion and dedication to providing qualityfast nutriment, Sanders oversaw his right in becoming one of the largest in the world.His likeness appears on their boxes to this day, and a stylized graphic of his smell is a brandmark of the corporation. Contents * 1Early Life * 2Early jobs * 3Career * 4Death and legacy * 5Footnotes * 6Further reading * 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 country road 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 grow was a mild and affectionate man who tried to make a living as a farmer, but fell and broke his back and a leg and had to give it up. 3For deuce age he worked as a butcher in Henryville. 3One aft(prenominal)noon in the summer of 1895 he came floor with a fever and died later 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 when he was 12. 5When his mother re matrimonial in 1902 his stepfather beat him.So hence, 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 United States Army at the age of fifteen, complementary his service commitment as a mule handler in Cuba. 6He was honorably discharged after four months and made his way toSheffield, aluminumwhere an uncle lived. 6It so happened that his brother Clarence had also made his way there, in order to avoid his stepfather. 6During his early 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 while he was on a trip, Josephine stopp ed writing him letters. He then learned that Josephine had left him, given away all their furniture and household 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 Fried Chicken, and appears on its logo TherestaurantinCorbin, Kentuckywhere Colonel Sanders developed Kentucky Fried Chicken Colonel Harland Sanders, in character In 1930 Sanders opened aservice stationinCorbin, Kentuckywhere he cooked chicken dishes and other meals such ascountry hamandsteaksfor customers. 10Since he did not mother a restaurant, he served customers in his adjacent living quarters. His local popularity grew, and Sanders moved to a motel and 142 seat restaurant, laterHarland Sanders Cafe and Museum. Over the next nine years he developed his secret recipe for frying chicken in apressure fryerthat cooked the chicken much faster thanpan frying. In 1939 food criticDuncan Hinesvi graded Sanderss restaurant incognito and was so impressed he listed the place in Adventures in Good Eating, his famous guide to restaurants throughout the US.As his success grew, Sanders played a more active role in civic 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 distinctive appearance, growing his trademark mustache and goatee and donning a white suit and string tie. 13He never wore anything else in public during the last 20 years of his life, using a levelheaded wool suit in the winter and a light cotton suit in the summer. 7He bleached 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 $105 from his firstSocial Securitycheck and began tour 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 league 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 his wife werebaptizedin theJordan River. 16He befriendedBilly GrahamandJerry Falwell. 16 In 1 973, 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 publicly 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 Charitable Organization, which used the proceeds to aid charities and fund scholarships. His trusts continue to donate money to groups like theTrillium Health Care snapper a wing of their building specializes in womens and childrens care and has been named after him. 18TheSidney, British Columbiabased foundation granted over $1,000,000 in 2007, according to its 2007 measure return. 19 Sanders died at the Jewish Hospital20inLouisville, Kentucky, of pneumonia on December 16, 1980. 2122He had been diagnosed with acute leukemia the previous June. 8His body lay in state in the rotunda of theKentucky State Capitol after a funeral service at theSouthern Baptist SeminaryChapel attended by more than 1,000 people. He was buried in his characteristic white suit and black western sandwich string tie inCave Hill Cemeteryin 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 JapaneseNippon Professional Baseballleague has developed anurban legendof the Curse of the Colonel. A statue of Colonel Sanders was thrown into the river and anomic during a 1985 fan celebration, and (according to the legend) the curse has caused JapansHanshin Tigersto perform poorly since the incident. 23 A manuscript of a book on cooking, which Sanders apparently 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 byGovernor cerise Laffoon. 1. Seven World 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 juvenile South By crowd C. Klotter 130 4. http//www. kentuckyfriedchicken. com/about/pdf/50th_anniversary. pdf 5. http//www. colonelsanders. com/ 6. abcdThe Human Tradition in the in the buff South By James C.Klotter 131 7. abcOzersky, Josh (2010-09-15). KFCs Colonel Sanders He Was Real, Not 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 quantify p. A33. 9. Josh Kegley,Daughter of Colonel Sanders dies at age 91,Lexington Herald-Leader, September 25, 2010. 10. KFC. co. uk About Us KFC History 11. The Human Tradition in the New South By J ames 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 broadcast 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 Dec 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. intelligence & Record. Associated Press. Retrieved 2011-11-12.