Sabin Woolworth Colton, Jr. (March 18, 1847 in

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– January 29, 1925 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) was an American investor. He was the only private individual to ever own a chair on both the Philadelphia and

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s. He became an office boy in 1862 at a stock brokerage, later became a clerk there. While a clerk there bought his own chair on the

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. His expertise was in underwriting the establishment of

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in exchange for stock in those companies. He retired in 1910, having built a spacious family house, Longmeadow, in

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, and an elegant Arts & Crafts-style summer house, Faraway, on Eastern Point of Greening Island,

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