Aaron Lufkin Dennison

Aaron Lufkin Dennison was an American watchmaker and businessman who founded a number of companies.

Aaron Dennison was born in Freeport, Maine, after which the family moved to Brunswick, Maine. He was the son of Andrew Dennison, a boot and shoemaker who was also a music teacher. As a child, Aaron earned pocket money by carrying a builders hod, working as a herdsman, and as a clerk to a businessman. Later he cut and sold wood and then worked for his father in the cobblers shop until the age of 18. While there, he suggested the making of shoes in batches rather than one by one.

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