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Founder Anton William
Anton William Otrusina was born in Bohemia in the year 1913. Being born so close to World War I and being brought up during it, the war impacted the way he lived. The greatest impact came when he lost his father, Vincent, on the Italian front. Afterward, Anton’s mother decided it would be best to move to the United States as soon as possible. In 1926, they made the move. Shortly thereafter, the Great Depression hit, which taught Anton to live with close attention to his finances. As World War II began to ramp up, he got a job working at Rolik Manufacturing, creating leather goods for the United States Army. Here, he got his start with leather working. As 1956 rounded the corner, Anton, along with his brother Joseph, opened Brookfield Leather Goods. The company provided seats and saddlebags for Indian Motorcycles and Sam Brown Hardware. After six years Anton decided that it was time to part ways and he founded AW Enterprises, Inc.
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Generation to Generation
Edward was born on August 31, 1956. Asthmatic from birth, Edward spent many a night either in hospital oxygen tents or nestled within warm blankets under his mother’s watchful eye. “I can still smell the plastic of that tent making everything look wavy, and see the black line, going up and down that was the zipper” he would remark.
“Seeing my mother, propped up against the vestibule, fighting both the urge to sleep, and the mother’s instinct to protect and nurture her offspring. I get something in my eye every time I think of that. What a mom.”
Being asthmatic, Edward wasn’t very good at sports until it left him in high school. By then his father would take him away from the city out to the country where Edward learned the value of hard work, and learning that there were two ways of doing things, the fast way, and the right way.
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