in Fort Erie, Ontario. A few of Kraft's brothers including, Charles Herbert, Frederick, Norman and John Henry, were executives in Kraft Foods. The Kraft family farm (located at Bowen Road at Winger Road) in Stevensville, Ontario, still exists as the area has remained agricultural. Kraft died on February 16, 1953, at the Wesley Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He is interred in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Skokie, Illinois. Legacy Kraft was born at 3347 Bowen Road at Winger Road. Known as Kraft House it was built on land farmed by Francis Krafft. There are a few places in Fort Erie that bears his or his family name but none are located near Stevensville where he was born and resided: Kraft - unincorporated area in the southwest end of Fort Erie along the shores of Lake Erie Kraft Drain - a short drainage canal located within Kraft and flows out to Lake Erie east of Crescent Creek Beach Kraft Lane and Kraft Road - two roads located within Kraft with former a driveway for homes at the foot of Kraft Road along Lake Erie; the latter is a local road References External links From Cheese to Cheese Food: How Kraft persuaded Americans to accept cheese by divorcing it from its microbe-laden origins. Short biography of J. Kraft at Mondelez International Long biography of J. Kraft at Kraft Foods Australia Biography at Harvard Business School's 20th Century American Leaders Database 1874 births 1953 deaths American company founders American Mennonites Canadian company founders American people of German descent Canadian emigrants to the United States Canadian Mennonites Canadian people of German descent Kraft Foods people Businesspeople from Chicago Processed cheese People from Wilmette, Illinois People from Fort Erie, Ontario American inventors Canadian inventors