1. Roger Ward Babson was an American entrepreneur, economist, and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century.
12 Facts About Roger Babson
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Roger Babson founded Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas.
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Roger Babson graduated from MIT with a degree in engineering.
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Roger Babson authored more than 40 books on economic and social problems, the most widely read being Business Barometers and Business Barometers for Profits, Security, Income.
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Roger Babson was a popular lecturer on business and financial trends.
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Roger Babson was an investor and sometimes director of many corporations, including some traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Roger Babson established the investment advisory company Babson's Reports, which published one of the first investment newsletters in the US.
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Roger Babson had "Ten Commandments" he followed in investing and encouraged his readers to do the same.
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Roger Babson was the Prohibition Party's candidate for President of the United States in 1940.
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The Foundation established a research facility in the town of New Boston, New Hampshire after Roger Babson determined that this location was far enough away from the city of Boston, Massachusetts to survive a nuclear attack.
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Roger Babson was interested in the history of an abandoned settlement in Gloucester known as Dogtown.
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On March 29,1900, Roger Babson married his first wife, Grace Margaret Knight, who died in 1956.