| Nathaniel Hayward | |
| Birth Name: | Nathaniel Manley Hayward |
| Birth Date: | 19 January 1808 |
| Birth Place: | Easton, Massachusetts |
| Death Place: | Colchester, Connecticut |
| Occupation: | Businessman, inventor |
| Signature: | Signature of Nathaniel Manley Hayward.png |
Nathaniel Manley Hayward (January 19, 1808 - July 18, 1865)[1] was an American businessman and inventor best known for selling a patent to Charles Goodyear that Goodyear later used to develop the process of vulcanization.[2] [3]
Nathaniel Hayward was born in Easton, Massachusetts on January 19, 1808.[4]
Hayward met Goodyear in 1837 and shared with him the discovery he had made, almost accidentally, while working at a rubber factory in Roxbury, Connecticut.[5] He bought some mills in Stoneham, Massachusetts, from Elisha S. Converse, which later became a small settlement called Haywardville.
He died in Colchester, Connecticut on July 18, 1865.[4]
Hayward's former home in Colchester has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1972.