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Peter Folger (December 26, 1905 – August 27, 1980) was an American coffee heir, socialite, and member of the prominent United States Folger family. He was also the longtime chairman of the board and president of the Folgers Coffee Company.
Peter Folger or Foulger (died 1690) was a poet and an interpreter of the American Indian language for the first settlers of Nantucket. He was instrumental in the colonization of Nantucket Island in the Massachusetts colony.
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Peter Folger (1617–1690)—a leading figure among the first genera- tion of English settlers on Martha’s Vineyard—first came to my at-tention while researching the life of one of his descendants from the Gilded Age, Henry Clay Folger (1857–1930), for a dual biography titled Col-lecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger (2014).
Sep 15, 2020 · The colorful and talented Peter Folger married an indentured maid he had met on the crossing, Mary Morrell. Peter moved his family of eight children to Nantucket in 1663. Their last child, Abiah, was born on Nantucket.
Learn about Peter Folger, one of the original settlers of Nantucket, and his descendants, including Benjamin Franklin. See the boulder and bench that mark the site of his homestead in Roger's Field.
Mar 16, 2020 · Under the leadership of Peter Folger, the brand became one of the principal coffee concerns in North America, the world's largest coffee market. Procter & Gamble acquired Folger's in 1963 and removed the apostrophe from its name.
Young Henry Folger was a 10th-generation descendant of the Nantucket settler Peter Folger, a surveyor and schoolteacher. Peter Folger’s daughter, Abiah, was the mother of Benjamin Franklin, and another family member, Maria Mitchell, was the first female astronomer in America.
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