Alexander Legge

(1866-1933) lived near Rogers/Schuyler, Colfax County, and in Omaha. Manufacturer and government official, president of International Harvester, manager of Allied Purchasing Commission in World War I, chairman of Federal Farm Board where he expanded the farmers cooperative movement, appeared on cover of Time, August 4, 1930. Consult Famous Leaders of Industry, Third Series (L.C. Page, 1931) 157-166 and Dictionary of American Biography, Sup 1 (1944) 490-491.

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