Benjamin Wright Raymond

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name = Benjamin Wright Raymond


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birth_date = birth date|1801|06|15
birth_place = Rome, New York
death_date = death date and age|1883|04|6|1801|06|15
death_place = Chicago, Illinois
residence = Chicago, Illinois
office = Mayor of Chicago
office2 = Mayor of Chicago
order= 3rd
term_start = 1839
term_end = 1840
predecessor = Buckner Stith Morris
successor = Alexander Lloyd
order2 = 6th
term_start2 = 1842
term_end2 = 1843
predecessor2 = Francis Cornwall Sherman
successor2 = Augustus Garrett
party = Whig
religion = Presbyterian
spouse = Aurelia Porter
children = George Lansing Raymond
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Benjamin Wright Raymond (June 15 1801 - April 5 1883"Obituary," "Chicago Daily Tribune", April 6, 1883.] ; buried in Graceland Cemetery) twice served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1839-1840, 1842-1843) for the Whig Party.

In 1864, approached by J.C. Adams of the Waltham Watch Company, Raymond agreed to put up the money to start a watch company in the Midwest. The men elected to build the company in Elgin, Illinois, which donated 35 acres of land to the entrepreneurs. The building was completed in 1866 and housed the Elgin Watch Company. The first model the company made was named the B.W. Raymond.

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