Leon Leonwood Bean holds a 19-pound salmon in New Brunswick, Canada, in 1945.
FILE – In this 1945 file photo provided by the L.L. Bean Archive, Leon Leonwood Bean holds a 19-pound salmon in Plaster Rock, New Brunswick, Canada. As outdoors outfitter L.L. Bean celebrates its 100th anniversary, it’s still not 100 percent clear what the famous founder’s initials stood for. It could be Leon Leonwood Bean, as the company claimed for decades, or was it Leon Linwood Bean, as his grandson suggest. Photo courtesy of the Leon L. Bean Home & Archive Center
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