The Baker Chocolate Company: A Sweet History - Anthony M. Sammarco - Google Books

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Discover the true story behind America’s first chocolate company, formed in pre-Revolutionary New England.   In 1765, the story goes, Dr. James Baker of Dorchester, Massachusetts, stumbled upon a penniless Irish immigrant named John Hannon, who was crying…