Henry Heide (1846-1931) was a German-American candy manufacturer. He ran a retail grocery store in Pittsburgh before moving to NYC where he began manufacturing candy and formed a partnership with Charles Wirtz. In 1875, they obtained a patent for a new and improved preserve composition for macaroons and, in the 1890s, Heide obtained two patents for an apparatus used to heat and cool liquid sugar. In 1920 they began production of Jujyfruits and they were popular in movie houses along with their other candies, Jujubes, Red Hot Dollars, Gummi Bears and Chocolate Babies. Williams Haynes Portrait Collection, circa 1900 (cropped and cleaned).
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