For many years, Reuben Benz shipped Yakima Valley apples overseas using the Goodfruit label. The seven “Benz Boys” were well known throughout central Washington State in the first decades of the 1900s. Their father, Frederick Benz, had emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1880, married a fellow German immigrant named Louisa Huttenlocher, and settled in Iowa. Always deeply religious, Frederick became an evangelical minister, serving a number of rural German evangelical churches. But between 1890 and 1899, seven sons were born to Frederick and Louisa, and the ministry was not providing sufficient income. So, the family moved to […]