Henry Plimpton Kendall (1878-1959) was a New England entrepreneur, industrialist, and philanthropist from Walpole, Massachusetts.
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Early life
Kendall was born in 1878 and graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1899.
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Career
He eventually acquired and founded many textile factories and other companies through his company, the Kendall Company, which emphasized product research and scientific processes. His company produced products such as Curity Diapers and Curad finger bandages (those brands are now owned by Covidien). He first turned around the Lewis Manufacturing Company in Walpole and then purchased the manufacturing village of Slatersville, Rhode Island where the Kendall Dean School was named in his honor. Kendall Company produced textiles for the government and Red Cross during World War I and expanded throughout the twentieth century acquiring manufacturing facilities in the United States and Mexico.
He served as Chairman of The Business Council, then known as Business Advisory Council for the United States Department of Commerce in 1934 and 1935.
Personal life and death
He was married to Evelyn Louise Way (1893-1979), and they had three children including Henry Way Kendall (1926-1999) who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1990. Kendall was an active philanthropist. He founded the Kendall Foundation, and served on the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, a Christian mission society. Kendall's property Moose Hill Farm is now an open space for the public.
He died in 1959.
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