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Redenbacher, Orville
(b. 16 July 1907 near Brazil, Indiana; d. 19 September 1995 in Coronado, California), agronomist and businessman known as the self-proclaimed “Popcorn King.”
Redenbacher was one of four children of William Redenbacher, a farmer, and Julia Magdelena Dierdoff, a home-maker.
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According to his biographer, Len Sherman, Orville was named after the aviation pioneer Orville Wright because of William Redenbacher’s respect for the Wright brothers and their accomplishments. The entire family helped maintain the farm.
Young Redenbacher helped with the chores and by age ten was tending the straw blower on the threshing rig during harvest. Two years later he began raising corn—the crop that would one day make him famous. His parents allowed him to keep the money he earned from selling his crop in nearby Brazil and Terre Haute, Indiana.
Redenbacher was the first in his family to attend high school, traveling approximately fourteen miles from the farm to Brazil, because
