Roger Babson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Roger Babson

entrepreneur and business theorist

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1875

Place of Birth: Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 05-Mar-1967

Profession: writer, politician, economist, author

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Roger Ward Babson (July 6, 1875 in Gloucester, Massachusetts – March 5, 1967 in Lake Wales, Florida) was an American entrepreneur, economist, and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century.
He is best remembered for founding Babson College.
He also founded Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas. Babson was born to Nathaniel Babson and his wife Ellen Stearns as part of the 10th generation of Babsons to live in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Roger attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for investment firms before founding Babson's Statistical Organization (1904), which analyzed stocks and business reports; it continues today as Babson-United, Inc..On March 29, 1900, Babson married his first wife Grace Margaret Knight, who died in 1956.
In 1957 he remarried to Nona M.
Dougherty, who died in 1963.
Babson died in 1967.