Frank C. Mars

Frank C. Mars was the founder of the American company Mars, Incorporated, which makes mostly chocolate candy. Mars and his son Forrest Edward Mars developed M&Ms.

In the late 1920s, Frank C. Mars moved to Pulaski, Tennessee, where he bought a number of local farms and constructed a large farm called Milky Way. During its construction, Mars employed more than 935 men from Giles County to build a 25,000 square feet (2,300 m²) clubhouse, more than 30 barns, a horse racing track, and a show horse track. Mars lived the remainder of his life on the 2,800 acre (11 km²) farm and was buried there upon his death in the 1930s. However, Mars's wife Ethel had the body and the masoleum moved to Chicago only a few years after his death.