William Tudor
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1779 – 1830
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Who was William Tudor?
William Tudor was a leading citizen of Boston, sometime literary man, and cofounder of the North American Review and the Boston Athenaeum. It was Tudor who christened Boston The Athens of America in an 1819 letter. His brother Frederic Tudor founded the Tudor Ice Company and became Boston's "Ice King", shipping ice to the tropics from many local sources of fresh water including Walden Pond, Fresh Pond, and Spy Pond in Arlington, Massachusetts.
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- Born
- Jan 28, 1779
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Phillips Academy
- Lived in
- Boston
- Died
- Mar 9, 1830
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on July 23, 2013
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