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.png) Edmund Dwight, c. 1849 | |
| Born | November 28, 1780
Springfield, Massachusetts, United States |
| Died | April 5, 1849 (aged 68)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Nationality | American |
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Mary Harrison Eliot (
m. 1809) |
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Edmund Dwight (November 28, 1780 – April 5, 1849) was a prominent American industrialist, educational reformer, and entrepreneur. He was known for being one of the chief supporters of the Massachusetts Board of Education, providing much of its early funding, and for his industrial ventures, as one of the Boston Associates, establishing the Hadley Falls Company which built Holyoke, Massachusetts, and providing early backing for the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad. He was also an early founder of the American Antiquarian Society, backing Isiah Thomas with several other prominent Boston businessmen. [1] [2] [3]
References
- ^ Benjamin W. Dwight (1874). The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass. New York: J. F. Trow & Son, printers and bookbinders. p. 896.
- ^ Eliot, Samuel; Bowditch, J. Ingersoll; Appleton, William; Smith, Alfred; Sargent, Ignatius (1853). A Report of the History and Present Condition of the Hadley Falls Company at Holyoke, Massachusetts. Boston: John Wilson & Son. p. 5.
- ^ Bowen, Francis (1857). Memoir of Edmund Dwight. Barnard's American Journal of Education.
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