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==Early life== Henry John Heinz was born in [[Birmingham, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|Birmingham, Pennsylvania]] to John Henry Heinz (1811–1891) and Anna Margaretha Schmidt (1822–1899). John Henry was born Johann Heinrich Heinz to parents Johann Georg and Charlotte Louisa (née [[Family of Donald Trump#Ancestry|Trump]]) Heinz in [[Kallstadt]] of the [[Palatinate (region)|Palatinate]], which at that time was part of the [[Kingdom of Bavaria]]. In 1840, John Henry emigrated to Birmingham, where he got a job making bricks and then met and married Anna in 1843, who herself had recently emigrated from {{interlanguage link|Kruspis|de}} (today a part of [[Haunetal]]), [[Electorate of Hesse|Hesse-Kassel]].<ref name="Skrabec, 2009">{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=PxqCy0R-VzAC |title= H.J. Heinz: A Biography |first= Quentin R. |last= Skrabec |publisher= McFarland & Company |year= 2009 |isbn= 978-0-7864-4178-5 |pages= 27, 28, 83 }}</ref><ref name="McCafferty, 1923" /> Then when Henry was five years old, his parents moved to Sharpsburg where Henry’s father went into the brick making business for himself. Anna Schmidt was the daughter of a farmer and church administrator, Johann Adam Schmidt, and his wife Dorothea (Thiel) Schmidt.{{efn|At least one biographer has erroneously written that Anna's father was a pastor, based on a mistranslation of the German word "Kirchenältester" which appears before Anna's father's name in Anna's baptism record. "Kirchenältester" does not mean "pastor," but rather refers to a lay church administrator who is elected by the parish elders to safeguard the affairs of the church.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB/kirchenältester |title=Kirchenältester |first=Wilhelm & Jacob |last=Grimm |date=1854 |access-date=March 23, 2021}}</ref>}} Anna came from Hesse-Kassel, which was a [[Evangelical Reformed Church in Germany|Reformed]] [[Protestant]] ([[Calvinist]]) territory, so she was raised in the Calvinist Christian faith.<ref name="Pettegree, 2000">{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ZdSVnJDClesC |title= The Reformation World |first= Andrew |last= Pettegree |publisher= Routledge |year= 2000 |isbn= 9780415163576 |pages= 399–400 }}</ref> Anna's husband, John Heinz, was a [[Lutheran]], and they raised and confirmed their son to that faith.<ref name="Skrabec, 2009" /><ref name="McCafferty, 1923">{{cite book |url= http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=00awg8618m;view=toc;c=pitttext |title= Henry J. Heinz: a biography |last= McCafferty |first= E. D. |page= 20 |year=1923 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.pittsburghquarterly.com/index.php/Historic-Profiles/relish-success-hj-heinz-in-the-21st-centory.html |title=H.J. Heinz: Relish success |first=William S. |last=Dietrich II |date=Summer 2008 |journal=Pittsburgh Quarterly |access-date=March 25, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402130031/http://www.pittsburghquarterly.com/index.php/Historic-Profiles/relish-success-hj-heinz-in-the-21st-centory.html |archive-date=April 2, 2015 }}</ref>
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