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Colonel Sanders Biography

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Name: Colonel Sanders
Variant Name: Harland David Sander
Birth Date: September 9, 1890
Death Date: December 16, 1980
Place of Birth: Henryville, Indiana, United States of America
Place of Death: Shelbyville, Kentucky, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: businessman

Encyclopedia of World Biography on Colonel Sanders

Colonel Sanders (1890-1980) created the Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food chain at the age of 66. Pride in his product, high standards, and brilliant marketing help to establish him as an innovator in the fast food industry.

Harland David Sanders was born on a farm in Henryville, Indiana on September 9, 1890. His parents, Wilbert Sanders, a butcher, and Margaret Ann Dunleavy, a homemaker, also had two younger children. Sanders' father died when he was five, so his mother took a job peeling tomatoes in a canning factory and earned extra money by sewing at night. Sanders had to take care of his siblings, learning how to cook so he could feed them. He held his first job at the age of ten, working on a nearby farm. Because the family was so poor, Sanders left school after sixth grade so he could work full time. His mother, desperate to improve the financial situation of her family, married a produce farmer and moved the family to suburban Indianapolis when Sanders was 12.

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