Before becoming the king of peanut butter cups, Harry Burnett Reese was quite literally milking it — as a dairy farmer working for the Hershey company. Tired of cows and looking for sweeter ...

A popular chocolate cup filled with delicious peanut butter, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups were created by a man named Harry Burnett (H.B.) Reese. Reese was born May 24, 1879 in Pennsylvania to a ...

Harry Burnett Reese, to be exact, or H. B. Reese. A Pennsylvania dairy farmer, Reese found work in the Hershey Company in 1917, and was sent to manage a dairy farm called the Round Barn in Hershey ...