As early as 1817, an ancestor of the Stam family ran a bakery just north of Amsterdam, Holland. In 1913, after receiving numerous requests from devout customers urging him to specialize exclusively in chocolate, Jacobus Stam turned his passion to fine chocolate and created Chocolaterie Stam. In 2008, the Schaap and Yager family decided to offer Stam confections while fulfilling their mission to serve patients and visitors in downtown Rochester.