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Babson, Roger Ward
1875 - Roger Ward Babson was born 6th of July in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
1900 - Married to Grace Margaret Knight.
1904 - Attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for investment firms.
- Founded the Babson's Statistical Organization, which analyzed stocks and business reports. It continues today as Babson-United Investment Reports.
1940 - Prohibition Party's candidate for President of the United States. Election was won by incumbent President Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the Democratic Party.
1948 - Established the Gravity Research Foundation. The Foundation built a research facility in the town of New Boston, New Hampshire after Babson determined that this location was far enough away from the city of Boston, Massachusetts to survive a nuclear attack.
1967 - Roger Ward Babson died 5th of March.
Founder of Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas.
His statistical compilations were of great importance of this generation of businessmen during the pre-computer era.
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- "It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true."
- "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."
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Yankee genius;: A biography of Roger W. Babson, pioneer in investment counseling and business forecasting who capitalized on investment patience by Earl L Smith (Unknown Binding - May 17, 2008) |
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Business barometers and investment. by Roger Ward Babson (Hardcover - May 17, 2008) |
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Bonds and stocks;: The elements of successful investing, by Roger Ward Babson (Unknown Binding - May 17, 2008) |
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Business barometers used in the management of business and investment of money: A text book on applied economics for merchants, bankers and investors by Roger Ward Babson (Unknown Binding - May 17, 2008) |
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Business barometers for profits, security, income by Roger Ward Babson (Unknown Binding - May 17, 1961) |
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Dogtown, Gloucester's deserted village by Roger Ward Babson (Unknown Binding - May 17, 2008) |
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