Wallace Jerome

Who was Wallace Jerome?

Wallace H. Jerome was considered an innovator in the domestic turkey industry. When the idea of "mega" farms was seen as inefficient and not possible, Jerome saw it as a way and technology of the future. Jerome started off with very little as a child and a young man. In 1922, after placing 14 turkey eggs under two brood hens, which hatched only one tom turkey, he had the beginning of Jerome Foods, Incorporated, of Barron, Wisconsin. Jerome Foods became The Turkey Store Company. The brand became "The Turkey Store". The Turkey Store Company was sold to Hormel Foods and was merged with Jennie-O Foods, to form what we know today as the "Jennie-O Turkey Store" company and products.