James Walker Tufts

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1835 – 1902

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Who was James Walker Tufts?

James Walker Tufts, is known for his founding of The Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina and for his development of a successful business in silver plate tableware. He also founded the Arctic Soda Fountain Co. and eventually merged with A. D. Puffer & Sons, John Matthews, and Charles Lippincott to form the American Soda Fountain Co. Tufts was the inventor of the Arctic Soda Fountain and was installed as the first president of the merger that formed American Soda Fountain. Tufts was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts to Leonard Tufts and Hepzebah Fosdick Tufts. He was "an entrepreneur, inventor, and philanthropist. He rose from being a sixteen-year-old drug store apprentice to becoming a wealthy businessman who had the vision and determination to build Pinehurst, in only six months." In 1895, Tufts initially purchased 500 acres, and eventually purchased an additional 5,500 acres, of land for approximately $1.25 per acre in the North Carolina Sandhills, with the vision of building a "health resort for people of modest means".

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Born
Feb 11, 1835
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Died
Feb 3, 1902

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on July 23, 2013

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