Quotes from Wood Axton story written by Mary Bishop Goetz O'Brien
"Woodford Fitch Axton, one of nine children reared on a hardscrabble farm, was worth half a million dollars when he died in 1935. An Industrialist, Turfman and Philanthropist, his life and death were chronicled in newspapers all over the world"
"His progressive business ideas were ahead of their time"
"Ardent supporter of the Bull-Moose Party and a personal friend of it's candidate for President, the "trust buster" Teddy Roosevelt"
"Axton-Fisher (The Tobacco Co. he was in partnership with his brothers and George H. Fisher in Louisville, Kentucky) built a large new plant in 1917, and in 1923, entered the cigarette field "
Cigarettes they were known for included, Clown, Spud (first popular menthol cigarette) and Twenty Grand.
"Woodford Fitch Axton, one of nine children reared on a hardscrabble farm, was worth half a million dollars when he died in 1935. An Industrialist, Turfman and Philanthropist, his life and death were chronicled in newspapers all over the world"
"His progressive business ideas were ahead of their time"
"Ardent supporter of the Bull-Moose Party and a personal friend of it's candidate for President, the "trust buster" Teddy Roosevelt"
"Axton-Fisher (The Tobacco Co. he was in partnership with his brothers and George H. Fisher in Louisville, Kentucky) built a large new plant in 1917, and in 1923, entered the cigarette field "
Cigarettes they were known for included, Clown, Spud (first popular menthol cigarette) and Twenty Grand.
Quotes from Wood Axton story written by Mary Bishop Goetz O'Brien
"Woodford Fitch Axton, one of nine children reared on a hardscrabble farm, was worth half a million dollars when he died in 1935. An Industrialist, Turfman and Philanthropist, his life and death were chronicled in newspapers all over the world"
"His progressive business ideas were ahead of their time"
"Ardent supporter of the Bull-Moose Party and a personal friend of it's candidate for President, the "trust buster" Teddy Roosevelt"
"Axton-Fisher (The Tobacco Co. he was in partnership with his brothers and George H. Fisher in Louisville, Kentucky) built a large new plant in 1917, and in 1923, entered the cigarette field "
Cigarettes they were known for included, Clown, Spud (first popular menthol cigarette) and Twenty Grand.
"Woodford Fitch Axton, one of nine children reared on a hardscrabble farm, was worth half a million dollars when he died in 1935. An Industrialist, Turfman and Philanthropist, his life and death were chronicled in newspapers all over the world"
"His progressive business ideas were ahead of their time"
"Ardent supporter of the Bull-Moose Party and a personal friend of it's candidate for President, the "trust buster" Teddy Roosevelt"
"Axton-Fisher (The Tobacco Co. he was in partnership with his brothers and George H. Fisher in Louisville, Kentucky) built a large new plant in 1917, and in 1923, entered the cigarette field "
Cigarettes they were known for included, Clown, Spud (first popular menthol cigarette) and Twenty Grand.
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