Frank M Bench
American
Frank M Bench was a notable American baker and inventor. - AsNotedIn
Frank M Bench was a notable American baker and inventor. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1916/00/00 | Frank Bench moves from Browning, Missouri, to 252 Clay Street in Chillicothe and established Bench's Modern Steam Bakery next door at 433 Martin Street (lost) offering home pastry delivery from his business own delivery wagon. | Home | Frank M Bench Residence | Chillicothe, MO | |||
| 1921/09/27 | Frank Bench's new brick bakery opens at the corner of Elm and 1st Streets. The state of the art facility employs eight people and can bake 1800 loaves of bread per hour at full capacity. The company sells wholesale to north central Missouri. | Work | Bench's Chillicothe Baking Company | Chillicothe, MO | |||
| 1925/00/00 | Frank Bench and Otto Rohwedder design a Bread rack. Patented in 1926, Otto's son Richard is pictured on the side holding a sandwich. | Inventor | Bench's Chillicothe Baking Company | Chillicothe, MO | |||
| 1928/07/07 | Frank M Bench's Chillicothe Baking Company, in Chillicothe, Missouri, begins offering Kleen Maid Sliced Bread at quality grocers in the area. Bread sales will rise 2000 percent in the two weeks. | Work | Bench's Chillicothe Baking Company | Chillicothe, MO | Invention of Sliced Bread | ||
| 1931/00/00 | By 1931, Chillicothe Baking Company goes out of business and Frank Bench sells his bakery building to Al's Bakery which will be taken over in 1933 by Fred Freeman and his milk bread. | Work | Bench's Chillicothe Baking Company | Chillicothe, MO |
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