Portrait: James Lewis Kraft, founder of the world’s third largest food company

25 January 2017 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: Portrait Reading Time:  8 minutes

James Lewis Kraft © culturecheesemag.com - Echtner

James Lewis Kraft © culturecheesemag.com – Echtner

James Lewis Kraft was a Canadian-American entrepreneur and inventor. Kraft was the first to patent processed cheese. Kraft was born near Stevensville, Ontario, Canada to parents Minerva Alice née Tripp and George Franklin Krafft, a farmer. He was of German origin. The Kraft family farm (at Bowen Road at Winger Road) still exists as the area has remained agricultural. Kraft was educated in the Stevensville area (S.S. No. 9) and worked nearby at Ferguson’s General store in Fort Erie, Ontario from 1901 to 1902.   read more…

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