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Pope, Albert Augustus
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May 20, 1843, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died:
August 10, 1909, Cohasset, Massachusetts (aged 66)
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Albert Augustus Pope

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Albert Augustus Pope (born May 20, 1843, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 10, 1909, Cohasset, Massachusetts) was an American manufacturer.

Pope served in the Civil War and subsequently made a fortune in a Boston shoe-supply business. In 1877 he founded a successful bicycle factory in Hartford, Connecticut. In the 1890s he began producing gasoline automobiles and electric automobiles in Hartford, Indianapolis, and Toledo, Ohio.

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