He then picked up a weekly newspaper route in his middle class neighborhood and then the Sunday paper in the nearby manufactured housing park. The entrepreneur was born, and Will started canvasing the neighborhood providing landscaping and snow removal services.
G rowing up in a large family there was no such thing as an allowance.
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Hugh quickly put them to work mapping out stormwater subcatchments, soil groups, land-use changes, flow paths and entering the pre and post development data into HydroCAD.įast forward twenty years and three of the adult children are Professional Engineers with the two-engineering outcast rebelling to become a computer scientist/programmer and a neuroscientist/biopharmaceutical executive. So, after school Hugh and Caroline’s five kids found refuge in the basement. At the same time Caroline, Hugh’s wife ran a home-based daycare.
Acorn was originally founded by Hugh Savage in 1988 and then reorganized under the leadership of his son Will Savage in 2007.įor the first 18 years Acorn was run out of the Savage’s home basement located in Brunswick.
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