Wallace Jerome
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Wallace H. Jerome (22 March 1909 – 21 June 2006) was an American businessman, and the founder of Jerome Foods, later the Turkey Store Company, which was sold to Hormel Foods and merged with Jennie-O Foods, to form what is known today as the Jennie-O Turkey Store company and products.[1] He is considered a pioneer of the domestic turkey industry.
Born in Spooner, Wisconsin, Jerome's family were poor, and he learned to work on the farm at an early age. Due to duties on the farm, he attended school intermittently, graduating from Barron High School in 1928.
He entered the Wisconsin Agricultural Short Course in 1930 in Madison, and began to work for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture as a poultry and egg inspector. In 1935, he attended the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, where he joined Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity - Lambda chapter. He continued his education at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, receiving a degree in Poultry Husbandry.[2]
