FREEPORT, Maine — He’s arguably Maine’s best-known native son, right up there with Civil War general Joshua Chamberlain, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and horror writer Stephen King. To his ...
Leon Leonwood Bean was born on October 13, 1872, in the little town of Greenwood, Maine. He showed an early interest in business, earning his first money at the young age of nine. He learned that he ...
Linda L. Bean, the granddaughter of L.L. Bean founder Leon Leonwood Bean, died Saturday at the age of 82, according to multiple reports. The Associated Press reports Bean's death was confirmed by her ...