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family lived in a Colonial-style brick homejust up the hill from the Athol Continued from Page 21 plant. In December 1941, as the company in 1926, then expanded it bombing of Pearl Harbor dragged through the Great Depression. By the United States into World War 1936, he owned six factories in ksscr events were shaping the Massachusetts and New York. The destiny of the Ansin family. Sidney Ansin had to go to Georgia to buy he contents of a defunct shoe company there.

Since Ed suffered from chronic ear infections in the winter, his father decided to take the family to Miami for Christmas. To Sidney, Miami was paradise. The evening before the family was SUMMER SALE. SIMMONS 11 HMOtoltok supposed to return to Athol, he noticed a newspaper headline about a snowstorm in New England. He promptly bought a house in Miami Beach and settled his family there for the winter.

For the rest of the war, the An-sins commuted between Florida and Massachusetts. Each fall the boys started school in Athol, transferred to Miami Beach for the winter, then finished in Massachusetts. From the age of 5 until he was in his teens, Ed spent summers at a camp in the Berkshires. After the war, Sidney sold all of his factories, except for one in Fitch-burg. He began buying cheap land in South Florida in the path of future growth.

He built tract housing between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, and he raised cattle and oranges on other property while waiting for it to appreciate. A New England education was a proven commodity, and Sidney sent his sons to Andovcr and Harvard. After squeezing three years' worth of credits into two years at Harvard, Ed transferred to the Wharton School of Business, in Philadelphia. He graduated in 1957, then returned to Florida, where his father asked him to scout out real estate around Orlando. Sidney never did buy the land; it had no value, he figured, because it was too far from the coast Farsightcd as he was, he could not have anticipated Disney World.

It was one of Sidney's few mistakes. A former World War II bombing range, acquired from the federal government, was one of his best investments. Today, it is a flourishing industrial park in Mira-mar, housing national companies ranging from Premier Beverage to a USA Today printing plant. Over the years, Ed Ansin has expanded the family holdings to include an Indiana industrial park and vacation homes in southern California. Although he has sold thousands of acres of waterfront land to state authorities for preservation, he still Today's solution Newcom ABmfiiiatMx.

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