Number of employees
30-49
In 1891 Hiram Lester Munn, a Civil War veteran, arrived in Ames from the state of New York and opened H.L. Munn & Son supplying lumber and building materials to the community. Hiram's son Alfred Hershel "Fred" and Fred's son Hiram Axtell, later took over the business and by the 1950s had expanded the operation to five stores throughout Central Iowa.