Kentucky Fried Chicken was founded by Harland Sanders in Corbin, Kentucky. Sanders was born on a small farm in Henryville, Indiana, in 1890. Following the death of Sanders's father in 1896. The young Sanders learned to cook for his younger brother and sister by age six. In 1929 Sanders opened a gas station in Corbin, Kentucky, and cooked for his family and an occasional customer in the back room.
During the 1930s, Sanders was named an honorary Kentucky Colonel by the state's governor and he developed a unique, quick method of spicing and pressure-frying chicken and popular in 1939.