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The family home was situated on a plot of ground containing some 

 three acres of fertile soil. The boy, in his teens, resolved to culti- 

 vate a portion of this land as a garden, and finding that it produced 

 more than was necessary for the consumption of the family, con- 

 ceived the idea of preserving the surplus and marketing it in the 

 neighborhood. His mother, who was a mistress of the culinary 

 arts, aided him, and the products of the garden, converted into 

 sauces, pickles, and condiments, put up in neat form, and most 

 savory, found ready purchasers. The business begun under the 

 family roof was so successful that the young manufacturer resolved 

 with the profits of his early sales to enlarge the enterprise, and after 

 attaining his majority associated with himself a partner, and 

 removing to Pittsburgh, began the conservation of pure food pro- 

 ducts on a liberal scale. He experienced many difficulties, but, 

 nothing daunted, he went forward, until to-day the establishment 

 which bears his name has come to be one of the greatest, if not the 

 greatest, in the entire world. The manufacturing plant in Pitts- 

 burgh at the time of his death covered thirty acres, to which are 

 to be added other manufacturing plants in the United States, 

 Canada, Great Britain, and Spain, covering an area of seventy 

 acres of buildings equipped with all modern appliances; forty thou- 

 sand acres of land under cultivation; tens of thousands of people 

 in his employment, with four hundred traveling salesmen going 

 forth from forty-five distributing centers located in the leading 

 cities of the world. The viands prepared by skilful hands in his 

 vast establishments are found on the tables of the poor and the 

 rich alike in every clime. His motto from the beginning of his 

 career to its end, as he often told the writer, was "to do common 

 things uncommonly well." 



But it is not as a preeminently successful manufacturer and 

 merchant-prince that Mr. Heinz claims our chief attention. He 

 won and held the regard and friendship of men not so much because 

 of his success in business affairs, as because of his loving kindness 

 to all about him and his enthusiasm for the higher things which 

 adorn life. In his youth, though the dream of entering the ministrx' 

 was not to be fulfilled, he found a sphere of kindred usefulness 

 in the Sunday-school of the little church which he and his parents 

 attended, and where he became the Superintendent. His interest 



