Allen P. Lovejoy
Allen Perry Lovejoy was a Wisconsin politician, lumber merchant and manufacturer, and generally influential business leader from Janesville, Wisconsin.
Lovejoy was born Allen Perry Lovejoy on March 20, 1825 in Wayne, Maine and raised on the family farm. He attended Wesleyan Seminary, now Kents Hill School, and for a year at the age of eighteen he taught school. In 1844 he took up an apprenticeship in the carpenter and building trade, and in 1850 he moved to Janesville, eventually expanding his contractor business into lumber retailing and manufacturing, with extensive raw timber holdings in Wisconsin and Michigan. Among the business leadership positions he held were president of the Harris Manufacturing Company, vicepresident of the Janesville Machine Company, president of the New McLean Manufacturing Company, director of the First National Bank, director of the State Lumber Company, and vicepresident of the Merrill Lumber Company.
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