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Who's Who of Ankeny

Ankeny Families & Companies

The families and companies that built Ankeny — profiled from public sources. See a name on a building, a business, or a street? Find out who they are.

The Ankeny FamilyThe Des Moines doctor-turned-railroad-promoter the city of Ankeny is named for — though the family never lived here.Read profile →The Albaugh FamilyThe family behind Albaugh, LLC — the world's largest privately held crop-protection company, built from Ankeny.Read profile →The Lamberti FamilyThe Italian-immigrant coal miner's family that grew a Des Moines corner store into Ankeny's Fortune 500 pizza-and-fuel giant, Casey's.Read profile →The Elwell FamilyThe developer who shaped much of commercial Ankeny — and helped bring Casey's headquarters, Target, and Tone's to town.Read profile →John Deere Des Moines WorksThe wartime ammunition plant that became a John Deere factory — and helped turn Ankeny into a city.Read profile →The Tone FamilyThe brothers who built Iowa's spice empire in 1873 — and brought Tone's to Ankeny in 1994.Read profile →AccumoldThe Ankeny garage start-up that became a world leader in micro-molding — plastic parts smaller than a pencil eraser.Read profile →Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC)The community college that has anchored Ankeny since 1966 — now the largest in Iowa.Read profile →The Baker Family (Baker Group)The family plumbing shop that grew into one of the Midwest's largest building-systems contractors — now employee-owned and Ankeny-based.Read profile →PurFoods (Mom's Meals)The Ankeny company behind Mom's Meals — home-delivered, medically-tailored meals shipped to seniors and patients nationwide.Read profile →General Marcellus M. CrockerThe Union general whose name marks the township Ankeny grew up in — and Ankeny's Crocker Elementary.Read profile →
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