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BENJAMIN THOMPSON, knighted by George III., and created Count von Rumford by the Elector Palatine of Bavaria as a reward for his services, was born at North Woburn, Massachusetts, on March 26,1753, and he died at Auteuil, near Paris (where he had settled), on Aug. 21,1814, aged sixty-one years. His career in early youth was a response, as in many other instances in a new colony, to the varied and often lowly occupations near at hand. For a time he was in the medical faculty at Harvard, and he also engaged in schoolmastering. No one could have foretold that he stood on the threshold of events from which emerged, as if preordained, the governing factors of his life. A matrimonial venture at twenty soon ended in convenient separation. There was a child of the union.
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JAMES, T. Rumford and the Royal Institution: A Retrospect. Nature 128, 476–481 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128476a0
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