Roger Babson
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| Born | July 6, 1875 |
| Died | March 5, 1967 (aged 91) Lake Wales, Florida, U.S. |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) (1898) |
| Occupations | Entrepreneur, businessman, economist, writer, philanthropist |
| Known for | Business forecasting, founding of universities, predicting Wall Street Crash of 1929 |
| Political party | Prohibition Party |
| Spouses | Grace Margaret Knight
(m. 1900; died 1956)Nona M. Dougherty
(m. 1957; died 1963) |
| Children | 1 |
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Roger Ward Babson (July 6, 1875 – March 5, 1967) was an American entrepreneur, Georgist economist, and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He is best remembered for predicting the Wall Street crash of 1929 and founding Babson College. He also founded Webber College (Webber International University) in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas.
Roger attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for investment firms before founding Babson's Statistical Organization (1904), which analyzed stocks and business reports; it continues as Babson-United, Inc.