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  • George Button, Jr. (1924 - 2006)
    Per his obituary: "... In 1954 he started the General Typewriter Co. that evolved into Shipman Ward which distributed office machine equipment worldwide. Upon retirement to Vero Beach, FL he was able ...
  • 1st Lt. Daniel Merriman, DD (USA) (1838 - 1912)
    1st Lt. Daniel Merriman (USA) Merriman was an American Congregational minister and art collector. With his wife, Helen Bigelow Merriman, he was a cofounder of the Worcester Art Museum and served a...
  • Philip Louis Moen (1824 - 1891)
    Philip Louis Moen Philip Moen was known around the country (and probably the world) as the Barbed-Wire King . Moen, born in 1824, had married the daughter of Ichabod Washburn in 1846. Washb...
  • Ichabod Washburn (1798 - 1868)
    Ichabod Washburn IWashburn was an American Congregational deacon and industrialist from Worcester County, Massachusetts. His financial endowments led to the naming of Washburn College, now Wa...
  • Gilbert Vernam (1890 - 1960)
    Gilbert Sandford Vernam (April 3, 1890 – February 7, 1960) was a Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1914 graduate and AT&T Bell Labs engineer who, in 1917, invented an additive polyalphabetic stream cip...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_Polytechnic_Institute

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, focusing on the instruction and research of technical arts and applied sciences.

Founded in 1865 in Worcester, WPI was one of the United States' first engineering and technology universities and now has 14 academic departments with over 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science, engineering, technology, management, the social sciences, and the humanities and arts, leading to bachelor's, master's and PhD degrees. WPI's faculty works with students in a number of research areas, including biotechnology, fuel cells, information security, materials processing, and nanotechnology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_Polytechnic_Institute#Alumni
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