Self-made chocolate mogul Frank Sarris, who died last week at age 78, is remembered in the Wall Street Journal.
While Hershey is a better-known Pennsylvania chocolate company, Sarris's is Pittsburgh's own. Mr. Sarris in 2009 made giant chocolate trophies for the Steelers and Penguins, the local pro teams that won national championships that year. Over the years, the company has also made 800-pound castles that took seven weeks to build and 25-pound grand pianos, all out of chocolate. Buses brought in tourists to gawk and eat ice cream made on the premises.
The Small Business Administration named Mr. Sarris one of the nation's top small-business figures at a White House ceremony in 2001. He was well-known as a philanthropist, and construction on the Canonsburg Public Library started the day Mr. Sarris died.
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