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Author:Bill Hart
Background:
Leonard Anson was born in Plover, Portage County, Wisconsin in 1848. He served in the Union army in 1865. After studying at the Bryant Stratton Business College in Chicago, he returned to Plover as a contracting logger.
Accomplishments:
In 1883 he moved to Merrill and became a partner in establishing the highly successful lumber mill of Gilkey Anson Company. He was president of the Anson Hixon Sash and Door Company, president and director of the Grandfather Falls Company, and had an interest in the Arkansas Land and Lumber Company. He also was instrumental in organizing the First National Bank of Merrill and the Lincoln County Bank, was mayor of Merrill (1890-1891), and was one of the area's leading philanthropists.
Leonard Anson died in 1927.
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