Henry J. Heinz
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Henry John Heinz October 11, 1844 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States |
| Died | May 14, 1919 (aged 74) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States |
| Cause of death | Pneumonia |
| Resting place | Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh |
| Occupation | Business magnate |
| Title | Founder of Heinz Foods. |
| Spouse(s) | Sarah Sloan Young Heinz (m. 1869; d. 1894) |
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Henry John Heinz (October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919) was an American entrepreneur who founded the H. J. Heinz Company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was born in that city, the son of German immigrants from Bavaria who came independently to the United States in the early 1840s. Heinz developed his business into a national company which made more than 60 food products; one of its first was tomato ketchup. He was influential for introducing high sanitary standards for food manufacturing. He also exercised a paternal relationship with his workers, providing health benefits, recreation facilities, and cultural amenities. His descendants have carried on the business. Heinz was the great-grandfather of U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania.
Henry John Heinz was born in Pittsburgh on October 11, 1844, the son of German immigrants John Henry Heinz (1811–1891), of Kallstadt, Kingdom of Bavaria (now part of the Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany, and Anna Margaretha Schmidt (1822–1899), of Bavaria. His father immigrated to the United States at age 19 in 1840, his mother at age 21 in 1843. They were married December 4, 1843 in Birmingham, Pennsylvania on the south side of Pittsburgh, where they first met. Anna Schmidt was the daughter of a Lutheran minister; John Heinz was also Lutheran and his family had lived in a predominately Catholic area of Bavaria in southern Germany.
Heinz was raised and confirmed as a Lutheran. Later in life he also worshipped as a member of Methodist and Presbyterian churches, and worked closely with Baptists as well.
Through his father's family, Henry Heinz was a second cousin to Frederick Trump, who emigrated to the United States in 1885. He is the immigrant ancestor and paternal grandfather of Donald Trump of New York City, the President of the United States.
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