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Peter Bent Brigham
Peter Bent Brigham (1807–1877) was a self-made American millionaire businessman, restaurateur, real estate trader, and director of the Fitchburg Railroad. He is best known as a philanthropist for his initial endowment of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Brigham Academy in Bakersfield, Vermont.
==Early life and family==
Peter Bent Brigham was born 4 September 1807 in Bakersfield, Vermont as the seventh of nine children born to Uriah Brigham (1757-1820) and Elizabeth (Fay) Brigham (1767-1837). Brigham was a direct descendant of Thomas Brigham (1603-1653), an early immigrant to Cambridge, Massachusetts,〔Brigham, W.I.T., E.E. Brigham, and W.E. Brigham (1907). ''The history of the Brigham family; a record of several thousand descendants of Thomas Brigham the emigrant, 1603-1653''. The Grafton Press, New York. 810pp. (pdf )〕 as well as John Bent (1596-1672) a founder of Sudbury, Massachusetts.〔Powell, Sumner Chilton. (1963). Puritan Village. The Formation of a New England Town. Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press. 215pp. ISBN 0-8195-6014-6〕 Brigham had little formal schooling and went to find work in Boston his early teens, when his father died. He began his career working on Middlesex Canal boats, selling fish and oysters in Boston.〔 He never married.
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