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Date Posted: 09:25:35 10/25/01 Thu
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Here's the information I promised...They were called "conversation candies".
1847
Oliver R. Chase of Boston invents and patents the first American candy machine, a lozenge cutter. With his brother, Silas Edwin, he founds Chase and Company, the pioneer member of the NECCO family.
1850
Oliver Chase invents and patents a machine for pulverizing sugar.
1866
Daniel Chase invents the Lozenge Printing Machine, creating the "Conversation Candies" which had instant and widespread popularity.
1876
At the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, the candy industry makes an impressive demonstration of its rapid growth. Steam power, which has revolutionized the business within ten years, is demonstrated in many new machines. Chase and Company is one of twenty firms exhibiting, showing its improved power machines.
1881 D. L. Clark begins manufacture of confectionery treats in two backrooms of a small house on the North Side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1884
Charles N. Miller starts a small business manufacturing and selling homemade candy. The building where they began was the Paul Revere House in Boston's Faneuil Hall area. Revere lived there with his family until 1800.
1901
New England Confectionery Company is formed by a union of the three firms: Chase and Company, dating from 1847; Fobes, Hayward and Company, with its beginning by Daniel Fobes in 1848; and Wright and Moody, dating from 1856. It is incorporated with a capital of $1,000,000. The trade name NECCO Sweets, derived from its title, is adopted.
1903
The three firms move into a newly-built manufacturing plant at Summer and Melcher Streets in Boston, MA. At the time, this was the largest establishment devoted exclusively to the production of confectionery in the United States.
1906
New England Confectionery Company inaugurates a profit-sharing plan to reward employees.
1913
Donald MacMillan, explorer, takes NECCO Wafers on his Arctic expedition, using them for nutrition and as rewards to Eskimo children.
1914
The Charles N. Miller Company begins manufacturing Mary Janes. Miller names the molasses and peanut butter candy for his favorite aunt, Mary Jane.
1917 D. L. Clark produces its first five cent candy bar in order to ship candy to soldiers fighting in World War I. This marks the introduction of the Clark bar.
1920
New England Confectionery Company takes a progressive step by insuring the lives of all its employees.
1927
New England Confectionery Company moves into its present plant near the Charles River and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is the largest factory in the world with its entire space devoted to the manufacture of candy.
1929
Deran Hintlian acquires the Windsor Confectionery Company in Somerville and the Murray Confectionery Company in Boston and begins manufacturing chocolates.
1933
Lovell and Covel Company joins NECCO, bringing the famous Chocolate Masterpieces trademark.
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