Nathaniel Hayward

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| birth_name = Nathaniel Manley Hayward

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| birth_place = Easton, Massachusetts

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| death_place = Colchester, Connecticut

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| occupation = Businessman, inventor

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Nathaniel Manley Hayward (January 19, 1808 – July 18, 1865)[http://records.ancestry.com/Nathaniel_Manley_Hayward_records.ashx?pid=20932376 Ancestry.com record] was an American businessman and inventor best known for selling a patent to Charles Goodyear that Goodyear later used to develop the process of vulcanization.[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/257878/Nathaniel-M-Hayward Encyclopædia Britannica: Charles Goodyear]{{Cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US1090.pdf|title=US1090.pdf|website=docs.google.com}}

Biography

Nathaniel Hayward was born in Easton, Massachusetts on January 19, 1808.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gawYAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA120 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=XII |publisher=James T. White & Company |pages=120–121 |year=1904 |access-date=2020-08-14 |via=Google Books}}

Hayward met Goodyear in 1837 and shared with him the discovery he had made, almost accidentally, while working at a rubber factory in Roxbury, Connecticut.[http://www.nndb.com/people/411/000050261/ NNDB:Charles Goodyear] He bought some mills in Stoneham, Massachusetts, from Elisha S. Converse, which later became a small settlement called Haywardville.

He died in Colchester, Connecticut on July 18, 1865.

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Hayward's former home in Colchester has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1972.{{NRISref|2009a}}

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