About Leon Leonwood Bean
Leon Leonwood Bean was an American inventor, author, outdoor enthusiast, and founder of the company L.L.Bean. Bean showed an early interest in business, earning his first money when he was nine years old. When Bean was 13 years old, he killed his first deer, and at 14 sold another that he had shot to two unsuccessful hunters. The local cobbler stitched the whole thing together." Bean sold a pair to Edgar Conant, his first customer.
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