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Colonel Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890December 16, 1980) was an American businessman, best known for founding fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (now known as KFC) and later acting as the company's goodwill ambassador and symbol. His name and image are still symbols of the company. Sanders held a number of jobs in his early life, such as steam engine stoker, insurance salesman and filling station operator. He began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in North Corbin, Kentucky, during the Great Depression. Sanders recognized the potential of the restaurant franchising concept, and the first KFC franchise opened in Utah in 1952. The company's rapid expansion across the United States and overseas was overwhelming for Sanders and in 1964 he sold the company to a group of investors led by John Y. Brown, Jr. and Jack C. Massey for $2 million. ==Early life and education== Sanders was born on September 9, 1890 in a four-room house located east of Henryville, Indiana.〔The Human Tradition in the New South By James C. Klotter 130〕 He was the oldest of three children born to Wilbur David and Margaret Ann (née Dunlevy) Sanders.〔 The family attended the Advent Christian Church. The family were of mostly Irish and English ancestry. His father was a mild and affectionate man who worked his 80-acre farm, until he broke his leg after a fall. He then worked as a butcher in Henryville for two years. One summer afternoon in 1895, he came home with a fever and died later that day. Sanders' mother obtained work in a tomato cannery; and the young Harland was required to look after and cook for his siblings.〔 By the age of seven he was reportedly skilled with bread and vegetables, and improving with meat; the children foraged for food while their mother was away for days at a time for work. When he was 10 Harland began to work as a farmhand for local farmers Charlie Norris and Henry Monk. Sanders' mother remarried in 1902, and the family moved to Greenwood, Indiana. Sanders had a tumultuous relationship with his stepfather. In 1903 he dropped out of seventh grade (later stating that "algebra's what drove me off"), and went to live and work on a nearby farm.〔 He then took a job painting horse carriages in Indianapolis.〔 When he was 14 he moved to southern Indiana to work as a farmhand for Sam Wilson for two years.〔 In 1906, with his mother's approval, he left the area to live with his uncle in New Albany, Indiana.〔The Human Tradition in the New South By James C. Klotter 131〕 His uncle worked for the streetcar company, and secured Sanders a job as a conductor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colonel Sanders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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