Early Life
Victor Houteff arrived in the U.S. virtually penniless. He soon found work as a hotelier and grocer in the state of Illinois. In 1919 he joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
In the midst of the Roaring Twenties Houteff journeyed west to California, so as to be closer to Seventh-day Adventist communities, like Loma Linda. In Los Angeles, California, he took a job as a salesman for Maytag, selling washers and other household appliances. An excellent salesman, Houteff soon saved enough money to start his own company which manufactured wholesome confectionery candies, or as Houteff himself referred to them, "health sweets."
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