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Benjamin T. Babbitt
Benjamin Talbot Babbitt (May 1, 1809 – October 20, 1889) was a self-made American businessman and inventor who amassed a fortune in the soap industry, manufacturing ''Babbitt's Best Soap''.
==Early life==
Benjamin Babbitt was born in Westmoreland, New York on May 1, 1809. His parents were Betsey (Holman) Babbitt, and Nathaniel Babbitt, a blacksmith, tavern owner and ensign in the militia of Oneida County, New York.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our County and Its People, Part II: Biography. Boston: The Boston History Company, 1896. )〕 As a child, he attended public school and worked on the family farm. He "possessed a most ingenious and inquiring disposition",〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Babbitt family genealogy )((archive) )〕 and by the time he was twenty he was working in a machine shop and had learned the trades of wheelwright, machinist and file maker. He took an interest in and studied chemistry from a professor who visited the workshop occasionally to give instruction to the workmen.
By age 22 Babbitt had enough money to open his first machine shop in Little Falls, where for 12 years, he manufactured pumps and engines. During this time he invented a practicable and economical mowing machine, one of the first made in America. His business was destroyed by a flood in 1834,〔 but he persevered.
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