The Peavey family's history is full of unusually successful entrepreneurs. I have learned a great deal from my father and grandfather and they learned a lot from their heirs.

Currently, Zane Peavey, my father (pictured at right with my Mom, Lee B. Peavey), is Chairman of The Board of the Peavey Corporation and is an irreplaceable consultant to the family firm.

He started working with his Dad in 1958 and soon thereafter started a company named Peavey Advertising representing products for advertisers. This company later evolved into selling incentive programs with the new division's name being Motivation Services and since then it was renamed Peavey Performance Systems.

Prior to this development, my father Zane Peavey with his father Lynn Peavey combined their previous companies and created a parent company called The Peavey Corporation which held the two divisions.

Today, I own with my two brothers, The Peavey Corporation, and with my father, Peavey Ventures LLC, and Peavey Properties LLC. The Peavey Corporation is a very diverse company with global interests in law enforcement technologies which sells to a very special niche market in the evidence collection and protection areas operating under the name of the Lynn Peavey Company. Also under The Peavey Corporation is Peavey Performance Systems which has two brands, SafetyJackpot.com which sells safety incentive programs to corporate clients and WellnessJackpot.com which sells wellness incentive programs including health assessment profiles.

I began working for The Peavey Corporation in 1983 and have held many positions within the firm. I started WebsitesWin.com out of a passion for building websites for charities and non-profit centers. I love helping people! I also love computers! I love advancing my computer skills and continue that learning each and every day. I also love helping others learn computer skills.

My grandfather, Lynn Peavey was a great businessman. He began as a reporter for the Capital Times in Madison Wisconsin where he became the political editor.  Later on his father Hubert Haskell Peavey asked him to come to New Richmond Wisconsin to manage the newspaper business that he owned. He also met his wife Carmen Hemenway at this time.

In 1934 Lynn Peavey then went to work for Peavey Paper Mills in Ladysmith Wisconsin which was owned by his two uncles Harold J. Peavey and William (Bill) McKindley Peavey. This firm was at the time, one of the worlds largest paper mills. He became the national sales manager and at one point decided to have his own son's (Zane Peavey) picture on millions of rolls of toliet paper. William (Bill) McKindley Peavey also owned businesses with race horses that ran in the Kentucy Derby among other things. 

Lynn Peavey then retired in 1950 and went to Kansas City as he had been working there throughout his life. He then started the Lynn Peavey Company in 1951 where he was a manufacturers rep for paper goods. Years later he began a successful business selling plastic reclosable bags to commerical industries.

My grandfather was also the grand nephew of John Franklin (Frank) Haskell and George Everett Haskell, both brothers, who were the founders  of Beatrice Foods Inc. and Beatrice Creamery. Beatrice Foods was the worlds 5th largest corporation selling dairy products. 

My great grandfather, United States Congressman Hubert Haskell Peavey, brought legislation that created the start of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, which was signed by President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt. He was a true entrepreneur and had diverse businesses from fur farming, to fruit farming, to large real estate holdings and newspaper companies across the United States. He also owned FoxFarms and was a large land holder in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Another great cousin of mine, Frank H. Peavey, founded the F.H. Peavey Company and built his empire in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1884. This firm then created Peavey Barge Lines and Peavey Grain Elevators. Peavey Company over its years created countless patents and notibably the "Ultrasonic" device originally intended for separating wheat into flour.

By1962 the firm had locations world wide including most every state in America. The firm went public in 1973 and, in 1982, was acquired by ConAgra, Inc. Peavey donated 7 acres of land on the South side of downtown Minneapolis and today it is Peavey Park with numerous sports activity fields. Peavey also made a donation to the City of Minneapolis which helped develop the site called Peavey Plaza which sits next to the Orchestra Hall. In December of 2008 it was called a "Marvel of Moderism" and was designed by the famous M. Paul Friedberg.

Frank H. Peavey also donated the Peavey Public Library in Eastport, Maine where he was born. This Library still remains and is supported by the Peavey families and Heffelfinger families for generations.

Frank H. Peavey also built a historic mansion high on a bluff at Lake Minnetonka named Highcroft. This expansive estate was used by the Peavey family as their summer home. This home has been written about by authors and it's commanding size was used by many for charity events.

Well that is as far as I will go for now.

I love direct contact with customers and those entrepreneurs anxious to either start up their business or those that have established businesses needing help !  

Scott (Skip) Haskell Peavey

Frank H. Peavey's "Highcroft" estate on Lake Minnetonka

The entrance hall at "Highcroft"