Edward John Noble

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Edward John Noble (1882 – 1958) was a U.S. broadcasting and candy industrialist originally from Gouveneur, New York. He co-founded the Life Savers Corporation in 1913. He founded the American Broadcasting Company when he purchased the NBC Blue Network in 1943 following the FCC's decree that RCA divest itself of one of its two radio networks. In 1912, chocolate manufacturer Clarence Crane (Cleveland, Ohio) invented Life Savers as a “summer candy” that could withstand heat better than chocolate. Since the mints looked like miniature life preservers, he called them Life Savers. After registering the trademark, Crane sold the rights to the peppermint candy to Edward Noble for $2,900. Noble created tin-foil wrappers to keep the mints fresh, instead of cardboard rolls. Pep-O-Mint was the first Life Saver flavor. Since then, many different flavors of Life Savers have been produced. The five-flavor roll first appeared in 1935. Sometime Ed would sneak a wintergreen lifesaver or two, turn out the lights, and shock his staff by creating sparks from his mouth. They is how the early days of spark gap radio were started.

Edward Also had 3 hospitals and a foundation named after him.

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