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   Jerome Monroe Smucker (1858–1948) was a farmer and entrepreneur who founded   
   The J.M. Smucker Co. food and beverage firm in 1897, starting out selling   
   apple butter from the back of a horse-drawn wagon. He was of Swiss descent.   
      
   Smucker, born in Wayne County, Ohio was the son of Ohio Mennonite farmers   
   Gideon and Magadalena (Zook) Smucker.[2] He built the family business to four   
   farms and a creamery, while spending his evenings tutoring his neighbors in   
   good penmanship. When he    
   added a cider mill in 1897, Smucker's first batch of apples came from some of   
   Johnny Appleseed's original orchards. To extend sales of apple products   
   year-round, Smucker began manufacturing apple butter from an old family   
   recipe, and it soon became his    
   most popular product. Smucker's began listing the ingredients of its many jams   
   and jellies years before it was required by law, and the business was   
   incorporated in 1921. The company's namesake died in 1948, but the business is   
   still family-owned, and    
   still headquartered in Jerome Smucker's home town of Orrville, Ohio.   
      
   On March 23, 1890 Smucker married Ella M. Yoder, of Bristol, Ind., who   
   predeceased him on March 6, 1933. Early in life he accepted Christ as his   
   Savior and united with the Oak Grove Mennonite Church near Smithville, Ohio,   
   later becoming a charter member    
   of the Orrville Mennonite Church.[3]   
      
   He was an active Christian worker, serving the Sunday school as teacher and   
   superintendent for many years. He was also greatly interested in the   
   educational and missionary activities of the church, supporting the work   
   through his prayers and liberal    
   giving. He was a lifelong resident of the Orrville community, where he   
   attained prominence by founding the manufacturing company which bears his   
   name. Funeral services were held at the Oak Grove Church on March 23, in   
   charge of V. M. Gerig and I. W.    
   Royer. Interment was made in the Crown Hill Cemetery at Orrville.   
      
   The distinctive surname was originally Schmucker, when Smucker's   
   great-great-grandfather came to America from Switzerland in the 1700s. It was   
   later spelled Smoker for about two generations, before the family's forebears   
   grew uncomfortable with a name    
   that suggested tobacco use and took to spelling the name Smucker.[2]   
      
   Smucker's great-great-grandson, Mark Smucker, has been CEO of The J.M. Smucker   
   Company since 2016.[4]   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Monroe_Smucker   
      
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