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Nathaniel Hayward
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Nathaniel Manley Hayward (January 19, 1808 – July 18, 1865)[1] 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.[2][3]
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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.[4]

Hayward's former home in Colchester has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1972.[6]
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