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...energetic young German, Henry Heinz, emigrated to the U. S. His ancestors, Bavarian winegrowers, had acquired high esteem from as early as 1709. In Pennsylvania he met and married in 1843 Anna Margaretta Schmitt, also an immigrant. Her father had been a burgomeister, an elder in the church. A year later their baby, Henry John, was born. In 1850 they moved to Sharpsburg, Pa., where the young father established a brick yard. Frugal Anna wanted her own kitchen garden, had one laid out much larger than her own family needs, sold produce to neighbors. Here among the cabbage tops...
...years ago, he went partners with one L. C. Noble, into the firm of Heinz & Noble, to bottle vegetables for the market. This firm grew, changed names, moved to Pittsburgh, expanded. In 1888, at 44 Henry John retired for a season. He had done some traveling, wanted to do more, eventually had seen the continents. From Rome he brought and erected in his Pittsburgh administration building a fountain. Ivory collecting was a pleasant avocation. His gathering contained 1,300 carved pieces, one of the few of its kind in the U. S. In 1919 he died, 25 years after...
...Heinz! HEINZ! WHAT'S the matter with Heinz...
...Heinz come wobbling down the street...
What's the matter with Heinz' FEET...