William Colgate
Sign in to savesoap manufacturer and philanthropist (2783-1857)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1882
- Died
- 1971
- Works
- 21
Top works
- Horace Walpole on Milton
- Canadian art: its origin & development
- C.W. Jefferys
- George Theodore Berthon
- Hoppner Meyer
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Key dates
- Born
- 25 January 1783
- Died
- 25 March 1857
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hollingbourne
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- philanthropist
- Image
- William Colgate.jpeg
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- P1343
Connections
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1783 births1857 deaths19th-century American businesspeople19th-century English businesspeopleAmerican company foundersAmerican industrialistsBaptists from New York (state)Burials at Green-Wood CemeteryBusinesspeople in the soap industryColgate familyColgate-PalmoliveEnglish emigrants to the United States