Joseph Michael
BANIGAN
(b.
7 June 1839
,
County Monaghan, Ireland
d.
28 July 1898
,
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
)
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Joseph Michael BANIGAN was born 7 June 1839 in County Monaghan, Ireland
Joseph Michael BANIGAN was the child of ? and ?Joseph Michael BANIGAN died 28 July 1898 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
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son of Bernard Banigan and ALice Banigan
m. Margaret J. Holt in 1860
m. Maria Theresa Conway in 1873
At twenty-five, after working in a variety of fields, he took over management of the Woonsocket Rubber Company and began molding it into one of the premier rubber companies in the United States. Eventually, Banigan would become one of the most successful Irish-American businessmen in the United States.
Irish Titan, Irish Toilers: Joseph Banigan and Nineteenth-Century New England Labor by Scott Molloy
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Joseph Michael BANIGAN was a Irish-American rubber king and millionaire.
Joseph Michael BANIGAN was a Irish-American rubber king and millionaire.
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1839 Birth 7 June 1839
County Monaghan, Ireland
1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)
1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)
1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)
First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented
Banigan Building, built 1896
Hailed as the first tall, steel-frame, “fireproof” building in Providence, the ten-and-one-half-story granite-sheathed Banigan Building was built on speculation by Joseph Banigan, founder of a large plant for rubber goods in Woonsocket and eventually also one of the founders of U.S. Rubber when his company went into the giant conglomerate.
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1898 Death 28 July 1898
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
He died at the age of 59.
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Joseph is buried at: Saint Francis Cemetery Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
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