Éleuthère Irénée du Pont
Founder of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
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He was born on 24 June 1771 and died on 31 October 1834.[1] His descendants became one of the richest and most prominent American families.[2]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours
- Born
- 24 June 1771
- Birthplace
- Paris, Kingdom of France
- Died
- 31 October 1834
- Place of death
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Resting place
- Du Pont de Nemours Cemetery (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.)
- Term
- 1804–1834
- Successor
- Alfred Victor Philadelphe du Pont
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
He studied under the chemist Antoine Lavoisier at the Régie des poudres, the government gunpowder agency.[3] Du Pont died in Philadelphia on 31 October 1834 from either cholera or a heart attack.[4] Lavoisier taught du Pont how to extract nitrates and manufacture advanced explosives.[3] On 1 January 1800, du Pont arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, accompanied by his father and his brother's household.[5]
For $6,740 he bought a plot on Brandywine Creek that included a dam and the remains of a cotton-spinning mill that had burned down.[6]
What the cited sources add
The Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary identifies Éleuthère Irénée du Pont as a U.S. industrialist born in France and notes his father was Pierre Samuel, a French economist and statesman.[7] Wisniak's 2000 paper states that the DuPont Company was founded as a result of the activities described in that source.[8]
References
- Wikipedia, "Éleuthère Irénée du Pont" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "DuPont". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Éleuthère Irénée du Pont" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "APS Member History", search.amphilsoc.org (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Éleuthère Irénée du Pont" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Wisniak, J. 2000. The History of Saltpeter Production with a Bit of Pyrotechnics and Lavoisier. Chem. Educator 5:205–209.; DuPont Heritage Timeline. http://www2.dupont.com/Phoenix_Heritage/en_US/landing_era1.html (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Éleuthère Irénée du Pont" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Biographical Note", Hagley Museum and Library; Williams. American National Biography Online. http://www.anb.org/articles/10/10-02013.html?a=1&n=E.%20I.%20du%20Pont&d=10&ss=0&q=1 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Éleuthère Irénée du Pont" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Family tree of Eleuthère Irénée DU PONT", Geneanet (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Éleuthère Irénée du Pont" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Brown, G.I. (1998), The Big Bang: A history of Explosives, Sutton Publishing, pp. 27–34. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "DuPont". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.. facts only, no text reused. dictionary.com
- Wisniak, J. 2000. The History of Saltpeter Production with a Bit of Pyrotechnics and Lavoisier. Chem. Educator 5:205–209.. facts only, no text reused. doi.org
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