biography
| name: |
Ghirardelli, Domingo
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originally Domenico
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pronunciation:
[zhiradelee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1817–94)
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| biography:
| Chocolate manufacturer, born in Rapallo, NW Italy, the son of a leading chocolatier. In 1837 he travelled to South America, where he established a chocolate trade, eventually settling in Lima, Peru, and then moved on to San Francisco, where he supplied the 1849 gold rush miners with chocolate. He founded his chocolate company in the city, building it up into one of the largest stores in the W USA. Ghirardelli Square is now a feature of the San Francisco tourist scene, the old store being one of the buildings to survive the 1906 earthquake. |
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