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Jul 06, 1875 Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States Died on 05 Mar 1967 (aged 91)
entrepreneur and business theorist
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About Roger Babson
- Roger Ward Babson (July 6, 1875 in Gloucester, Massachusetts – March 5, 1967 in Lake Wales, Florida) was an American entrepreneur, economist, and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century.
- He is best remembered for founding Babson College.
- He also founded Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas. Babson was born to Nathaniel Babson and his wife Ellen Stearns as part of the 10th generation of Babsons to live in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
- Roger attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for investment firms before founding Babson's Statistical Organization (1904), which analyzed stocks and business reports; it continues today as Babson-United, Inc..On March 29, 1900, Babson married his first wife Grace Margaret Knight, who died in 1956.
- In 1957 he remarried to Nona M.
- Dougherty, who died in 1963.
- Babson died in 1967.
