John Henry

Honoring the century and a half of Henry John Heinz and the legacy he built at the history center that bears his family is appropriate, Masich said.

The empire Henry John Heinz built marks its 150th anniversary this year, with events and special commemorations in Pittsburgh and around the world.

Heinz, the American company perhaps most associated with ketchup, didn’t get into the game until 1876, seven years after Henry John Heinz set up the company to sell horseradish using his mother’s recipe.

Drue Heinz, 103, who used her riches from her third marriage — to Henry John Heinz II, the family behind the H.J.

His mother and father both died before Hoover turned 9, requiring him to move to Salem, Ore., to live with his uncle, Henry John Minthorn.