Leon Levine
ABOUT LEON LEVINE
Businessman and philanthropist who founded the Family Dollar chain of discount stores in 1959.
He attended Wingate University of North Carolina
He was 15 when he was put in charge of the department store that his family owned after his father died and his older brother was drafted into the Korean War.
He had three children with his wife Sandra.
He and Wilbur Hardee were both entrepreneurs and businessmen from North Carolina.
