Late Life
Milton Hershey was feeling on top of the world. That is, until his "Kitty" Catherine Sweeny died in 1905. He was very depressed, and had no children to love and care for. In 1918 he gave up his whole 60,000,000 fortune to his Hershey Industrial School. He helped support the Great Depression (see Hershey and the Great Depression) and reformed the way we treat employees today. He created the Ration D Bar, to give to soldiers to get the calories they need to get three meals a day. He made his home into a golf club and stayed in one room as a quiet lonely man. He died on October 13, 1945 of old age of 88 years old.