Henry Waitt

{{Short description|American businessman}}

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Henry Waitt (died 1902) was an American businessman who co-founded Waitt & Bond with Charles Henry Bond.

Waitt was born in Malden, Massachusetts. He spent most of his life in the Franklin Park section (also known as North Revere) of Revere, Massachusetts. Waitt became involved in the tobacco business.{{cite news|title=Henry Waitt Dead.|newspaper=The Boston Daily Globe|date=May 8, 1902}}{{cite book|last=Atherton|first=Horace A.|title=History of Saugus, Massachusetts|year=1916|publisher=Citizens Committee of the Saugus Board of Trade|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofsaugusm00athe_0|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofsaugusm00athe_0/page/54 54]}}

In 1870, he and Bond established Waitt & Bond in a shop in Saugus, Massachusetts.{{cite journal|title=Waitt & Bond, Inc.|journal=Standard Corporation Records|year=1944|volume=23|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LV1LAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Charles+H.+Bond%22|publisher=Standard statistics co., inc}} The business grew rapidly and it was relocated to a large factory in Boston. Waitt & Bond eventually became the largest cigar manufacturer in New England and one of the largest in the United States.{{cite news|title=Bond Drowns in Bathtub|newspaper=The Boston Daily Globe|date=July 5, 1908}}

In 1898, Waitt moved to Newton, Massachusetts. He died on May 7, 1902, at his home after an illness.{{cite journal|title=Death of Mr. Waitt|journal=The Spatula|date=May 1902|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mIA3JZYLVXsC&pg=PR1|access-date=January 25, 2014|last1=Fox|first1=Irving P.}}

The city of Revere named the elementary school in Franklin Park after Waitt. The Henry Waitt School opened in 1910 and was sold to a private owner in 1980.{{cite news|title=Henry Waitt School to be Opened Today|newspaper=The Boston Daily Globe|date=September 12, 1910}}{{cite news|title=Second Fire This Week Hits Revere School|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=June 19, 1980}}