Henry S. Hale | |
Birth Name: | Henry Safford Hale |
Birth Date: | 15 July 1844 |
Death Place: | Montreal, Canada |
Children: | 2 |
Occupation: | Entrepreneur, inventor |
Employer: | Hale & Kilburn |
Henry S. Hale (July 15, 1844 – November 26, 1921) was a Philadelphia inventor and industrialist. He was president of the Hale & Kilburn company of Philadelphia. The Hale & Kilburn company's primary business was the production of railroad car seats for the expanding American railroad companies. The Hale & Kilburn company was sold to J.P. Morgan & Co. in 1911 for $9 million.[1]
Henry Safford Hale was born on July 15, 1844, to Rhoda (née Stone) and Warren Hale.[2]
Hale was the president of Hale & Kilburn.[3] In 1911, the company was sold to J.P. Morgan & Co.[1] By 1911, he became president of the Railway Equipment Corporation.[4]
In 1895, Hale purchased The Balsams Grand Resort Hotel (then called Dix House) in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire.[5] From 1895 to 1921, he supervised the expansion of The Balsams' grounds, including adding multiple lakes, a canal system, and the creation of its Panorama golf course in Colebrook, New Hampshire.[6]
He married Frances Emogene Kilburn of Burlington, Vermont, the daughter of his father's business partner Cheney Kilburn, on October 10, 1866.[7] Together, they had one son, Henry Warren Kilburn Hale, and one daughter.[2] [8] [9]
In 1917, Hale offered 16 farms, approximately, in the White Mountains region of Coos County, New Hampshire, to the United States Department of Agriculture.[10]
Hale died at the age of 77 on November 26, 1921, in Montreal, Canada, while visiting his son.[8]