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4 unusual facts about Henry Perky


Henry Perky

The biscuits proved more popular than the machines, so Perky moved East and opened his first bakery in Boston, Massachusetts and then in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1895, retaining the name of The Cereal Machine Company, and adding the name of the Shredded Wheat Company.

He returned to Denver and began distributing the biscuits from a horse-drawn wagon in an attempt to popularize the idea.

Having made his fortune, the following year Perky arrived in Glencoe, Maryland and began purchasing large tracts of land in the region.

Sue followed from Wahoo later that same year and, in Denver, Colorado, she gave birth to their only surviving child, Scott Henry Perky (1880-?).



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