HISTORIES:   A. B. Leaf Tobacco Co., Barron, Barron County, WI

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The A. B. Leaf Tobacco Co. of Barron, was organized early in 1920, and is
one of the flourishing enterprises of the community. It was incorporated
the same year with a capital of $50,000, with Nels 0. Tvedt, president,
Otto E. Anderson, vice-president, and L. Anderson, secretary and treasurer.
Their warehouse is fully equipped for the handling of their product in its
raw state. It has the dimensions of 60 by 26 feet, with full basement, and
an addition of 26 by 26 feet. The main floor is used for storing and
seasoning and for the offices, while in the basement is all necessary
equipment for sizing stripping and packing. The factory furnishes
employment to about twenty sizers and six day hands. Mr. Tvedt, it's
president and manager, is thoroughly competent and is making the business a
success. It was he who started the tobacco raising industry in Barron
County, and he has ever since been an important factor in it's development.
It was in 1898, that he raised the first tobacco for the market and for
many years he maintained a warehouse on his farm before moving to the city.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pp. 107-108.