Sanders worked for various railroads during the early years of his marriage, ... Sanders, Colonel Harland. Life As I Have Known It Has Been Finger Lickin' Good. Creation House, 1974.

Their third child, Mildred Marie Sanders, was born in 1919 after the family went to live in Indiana. Harland Jr. died at the age of 20, on Sept. 15, 1932, of infected tonsils.

Colonel Sanders is probably the most recognizable icon in fast food history. However, most people don't know too much about the man himself. Much of what you may have heard is little more than ...

The Colonel’s early life. Harland David Sanders was born in 1890 in Henryville, Indiana. He grew up in a poor household and had a rough childhood.

Long before KFC’s Colonel Sanders was inexplicably a CGI Instagram influencer, RoboCop, or Reba McEntire, he was the Indiana-born Harland David Sanders.As Adam Chandler traces in his book Drive ...

This video dives into the real story of Colonel Harland Sanders, from his rocky early life and countless failures to the creation and global rise of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

“I figured I couldn’t do worse than these people running these places around town,” said Sanders, as recounted in John Ed Pearce’s 1982 biography, The Colonel. Colonel Harland Sanders ...