Edmund Dwight

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Edmund Dwight

Birth
Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
1 Apr 1849 (aged 68)
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Walnut Ave. below Bell Tower
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Edmund graduated from Yale, then trained as a lawyer, but made his mark in the world as one of the founding fathers of cotton manufacturing in New England (Chicopee, Mass.) and as a philanthropist who supported Horace Mann and the establishment of public education in Massachusetts. He also worked in his family's mercantile business and helped found the Western Rail Road which ran from Worcester, Mass. to Albany, N. Y.
Edmund graduated from Yale, then trained as a lawyer, but made his mark in the world as one of the founding fathers of cotton manufacturing in New England (Chicopee, Mass.) and as a philanthropist who supported Horace Mann and the establishment of public education in Massachusetts. He also worked in his family's mercantile business and helped found the Western Rail Road which ran from Worcester, Mass. to Albany, N. Y.

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EDMUND DWIGHT
AE 68
BORN NOV. 28, 1780
DIED APRIL 1, 1849

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The lettering is very faint and doesn't show in the photo, but I could read it and made a transcription.

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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59851003/edmund-dwight: accessed ), memorial page for Edmund Dwight (28 Nov 1780–1 Apr 1849), Find a Grave Memorial ID 59851003, citing Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory, Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Nanny (contributor 47179467).