Nathaniel Manley Hayward (January 19, 1808 – July 18, 1865) 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.
Biography
Nathaniel Hayward was born in Easton, Massachusetts on January 19, 1808.4
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.5 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, 1865.6
Hayward's former home in Colchester has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1972.7
References
Ancestry.com record https://records.ancestry.com/Nathaniel_Manley_Hayward_records.ashx?pid=20932376 ↩
Encyclopædia Britannica: Charles Goodyear http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/257878/Nathaniel-M-Hayward ↩
"US1090.pdf" (PDF). docs.google.com. https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US1090.pdf ↩
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XII. James T. White & Company. 1904. pp. 120–121. Retrieved August 14, 2020 – via Google Books. https://books.google.com/books?id=gawYAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA120 ↩
NNDB:Charles Goodyear http://www.nndb.com/people/411/000050261/ ↩
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XII. James T. White & Company. 1904. pp. 120–121. Retrieved August 14, 2020 – via Google Books. https://books.google.com/books?id=gawYAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA120 ↩
"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP ↩