Harland Sanders was born in 1890 in Indiana and worked a variety of jobs before opening a restaurant in Kentucky serving fried chicken in 1930. His chicken recipe became popular and he began franchising in the 1950s. By 1964 he had sold his company, Kentucky Fried Chicken, for $2 million, though he continued promoting the brand. Sanders died in 1980 at age 90 in Kentucky.

2. Born
Harland David Sanders
September 9, 1890
Henryville, Indiana, U.S.
Died
December 16, 1980 (aged 90)
Cause of death Pneumonia
Nationality American
Occupation Entrepreneur
Board member of Kentucky Fried Chicken (founder)
Religion Disciples of Christ
Spouse(s)
Josephine King (divorced)
Claudia Price
Children
Harland David Sanders, Jr.
Margaret Sanders
Mildred Sanders Ruggles
Parents
Wilbur David Sanders
Margaret Ann Sanders (née Dunlevy
)

3. Early Life
Sanders was born on September 9, 1890 in a thin-
walled, four room shack on a country road three miles
east of Henryville, Indiana.
 He was the oldest of three children born to Wilbur
David and Margaret Ann Sanders. Sanders was of Irish
descent.
Sanders' father make a living as a farmer. For two
years he worked as a butcher in Henryville. One
afternoon in the summer of 1895 he came home with a
fever and died later that day.
 His father dies when he was only 7 years old.

4. Life before KFC
Sanders falsified his date of birth and enlisted in the
United States Army at the age of fifteen, completing his
service commitment as a mule handler in Cuba.
 He was honourably discharged after four months and
made his way to Sheffield, Alabama where an uncle lived.
During his early years, Sanders held many jobs, including
being a steamboat pilot, insurance salesman, railroad
fireman, and farmer.
Sanders married Josephine King in 1908 and started a
family, but after his boss fired him for insubordination.
He had a son, Harland, Jr., who died at an early age, and
two daughters, Margaret Sanders and Mildred Sanders
Ruggles.

5. Career
In 1930 Sanders opened a service station in Corbin,
Kentucky where he cooked chicken dishes and other
meals such as country ham and steaks for customers.
 Since he did not have a restaurant, he served
customers in his adjacent living quarters. His local
popularity grew and Sanders moved to a motel with
a 142 seat restaurant, later designated the Harland
Sanders Café and Museum.
 Over the next nine years he developed his "Secret
Recipe" for frying chicken in a pressure fryer that
cooked the chicken much faster than pan frying.

6. In 1939 food critic Duncan Hines visited Sanders’s
restaurant incognito and was so impressed he listed the
place in “Adventures in Good Eating,” his famous
guide to restaurants throughout the US.
As his success grew, Sanders played a more active role
in civic life, including joining the Rotary Club, the
chamber of commerce, and the Freemasons.
 In 1947, he and Josephine divorced and Sanders
married his secretary Claudia in 1949, as he had long
desired.
He was "re-commissioned" as a Kentucky Colonel in
1949 by his friend, Governor Lawrence Wetherby.
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8. Life with KFC
At age 65, Sanders' store having failed due to the then
new Interstate 75 reducing his restaurant's customer
traffic, he took $105 from his first Social Security
check and began visiting potential franchisees.
The franchise approach was successful and in 1964
Sanders sold the Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation
for $2 million to a partnership of Kentucky
businessmen headed by John Y. Brown, Jr.
 In 1965 Sanders moved to Mississauga, Ontario to
oversee his Canadian franchises and continued to
collect franchise and appearance fees both in Canada
and in the U.S. He was active in Ontario even as he
aged.

9. Sanders died at the Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky of
pneumonia on December 16, 1980. He had been diagnosed with
acute leukemia the previous June.
 His body lay in state in the rotunda of the Kentucky State Capitol
in Frankfort after a funeral service at the Southern Baptist
Seminary Chapel, which was attended by more than 1,000 people.
He was buried in his characteristic white suit and black western
string tie in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.
Since his death, Sanders has been portrayed by voice actors in
Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials in radio and an animated
version of him has been used for television commercials.
Death