Arthur D. Ganong, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian curler
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Place of Birth: St. Stephen, New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada
About Arthur D. Ganong
- Arthur Deinstadt Ganong (August 3, 1877 – November 1960) was a Canadian businessman and politician.
- He was born in St.
- Stephen, New Brunswick into a chocolate making family and would serve as president of Ganong Bros.
- Limited from 1917 to 1957. He was the sixth of the seven children of James Harvey Ganong and Susan E.
- Brittan.
- His father and his uncle, Gilbert, founded the chocolate-making company in 1873.
- Among his siblings are educator Susie, businessman Edwin, botanist William, and Kit Ganong Whidden. On 8 June 1904, Arthur Ganong married Berla Frances Whidden (1878–1958) of Grand Manan, New Brunswick.
- The couple had four children. Ganong worked all his life in the family business and took over as its head from his Uncle Gilbert who died without issue.
- Arthur Ganong and company employee George Ensor developed a chocolate bar to take along on their fishing trips and in 1910 the company introduced Pal-o-Mine, the first 5-cent chocolate nut bar in North America.
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