Having served his apprenticeship in his father's shop at The Pavement in York, and following his father's death in 1860, Henry Rowntree went to work for the Tuke family at their shop in Walmgate.
[1] In June 1862 Henry Isaac bought out the chocolate, cocoa-making and chicory departments and ran the business himself employing around a dozen people.
[1] In August 1864, he bought a disused foundry at Tanner's Moat and built a new factory there.
[2] In February 1868 he married Harriet Selina Osborn in Scarborough.
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