Oral history interview with Oliver M. Hayden 1986 February 18

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Oral history interview with Oliver M. Hayden 1986 February 18

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Hayden begins with his life in Windsor, Connecticut, his academic life at Clark College, and his first employment with insurance companies in Hartford. He served in clinical laboratories and other assignments in the U.S. Army Sanitation Corps during World War I. He joined the Fisk Rubber Company, where he gained experience in rubber compounding and quality control. Hayden then moved to the Organic Chemicals Department of Du Pont, where he worked in screening chemicals for use in the rubber industry, the development of neoprene, and became Manager of the Rubber Laboratory. He moved into Technical Sales management, Rubber Chemicals Division, and became Assistant Director of Sales in the Elastomer Chemicals Department. During the interview he talks about colleagues he knew and friends he made at Fisk, Du Pont and in the rubber industry.

Sound recordings ; cassettes (180 mins.)Transcript : (57 leaves) ; 29 cm.

Chemical Heritage Foundation, Othmer Library of Chemical History

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Chemical Heritage Foundation, Othmer Library of Chemical History

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Ferguson, Raymond C.

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Hayden, Oliver M. (Oliver Mills), 1893-1991

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Born in Windsor, Connecticut on 20 August 1893. Education: A.B., Chemistry, Clark College (1914). Employment: 1915 Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company ; 1915-1917 Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company ; 1917-19191 U.S. Army Sanitary Corps ; 1919-1926 Fisk Rubber Company ; 1926-1957 E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. From the description of Oral history interview with Oliver M. Hayden 1986 February 18 (Chemical Heritage Foundation). WorldCat record id: 78583810 Olive...