Irwin Jacobs, an investment advisor from Minneapolis, had partnered with Amway Corporation. Together they had acquired about 10 percent or 5.5 million sharesof Avonstock.Avon employed a number of meanstodissuade an overture from Amway ...
Many other people kindly lent photographs: Jane Hunter Bates, Robert J. Campbell, Dr. Lothar Candels, Janet Carville, ... Barbara Plude Thomas, Audrey Thompson, Betsy Hunter Tyne, Patricia Parker Vibert, and Doris Kubik Zumbrowski.
INTRODUCTION The city of Avon , Ohio , is located in the northeast section of Lorain County near Lake Erie . Following the Revolutionary War of 1776 , the 13 original colonies were urged to give up their western territories to provide ...
Clinton B. Hadsell took photographs of Avon from 1889 to 1919, when Avon's population was only about 1,000 people. His descendants, Doris Miller and Seth Stewart, donated the Hadsell photographs to the Avon Free Public Library.
It tells the story of what makes the company tick. The book is an excellent primer on how to successfully make alternative forms of distribution work.
The meticulously researched text of Avon fully explains each photograph. There are views of families, farms, and fires, Main Street, Secret Lake, St. Ann's Church, and an 1835 Avon map from the Connecticut Historical Society.