Joel Hayden (April 8, 1798 – November 10, 1873), was an American industrialist and
politician who served as the 26th
Lieutenant Governor
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for the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1863 to 1866.
In 1857,
Amherst College
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accepted a gift from Joel Hayden – a bronze neo-classical sculpture named after
Sabrina
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, Goddess of the Britons.
Hayden owned several business and mills in
Haydenville, Massachusetts
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History
The area was first settled in 1735 an ...
, a borough of
Williamsburg, Massachusetts, including a brass factory, gas works, cotton factory, and foundry. He was also a part-owner of the Williamsburg Reservoir Company, which built the shoddy Williamsburg Reservoir, completed in 1866. On May 16, 1874, several months after Hayden's death, the dam failed catastrophically, causing a
flood that killed 139 people and destroyed all four of Hayden's factories.
[Elizabeth M. Sharpe, In the Shadow of the Dam, Free Press, New York, 2004]
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1798 births
1873 deaths
Lieutenant Governors of Massachusetts
Massachusetts Republicans
People from Williamsburg, Massachusetts
19th-century American politicians
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