Lewis W. Lehr

(1921- ) born at Elgin, Antelope County, lived in Lincoln. Manufacturing company executive, while associated from 1947 to 1991 with Minneapolis Mining & Manufacturing, he was president and chief executive from 1974 to 1986 when health care products program was established as was a subsidiary in China, and 3-M became not only a high ranking Fortune 500 company but also a very innovative business with a range of 45 to 85 thousand products, with half of its new products specially designed for customers. Consult Forbes, March 1, 1982, pp. 112-114 and Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman Jr., In Search of Excellence (Harper & Row, 1982) 224-234 and Ray Wild, How to Manage: By More than 100 of the World's Leading Business Leaders (Facts On File, 1985) 165-169 and Sunday/Omaha/World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, January 12, 1986, p. 14 and Who's Who in America, Vol 2 (2003) 3087.

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