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Edward Sprague Rand was born on June 23, 1782 in Newburyport, Massachussets. He was the son of Edward and Ruth (Sprague) Rand and a grandson of Dr. Isaac Rand of Charlestown and of Dr. John Sprague, a prominent physician of Newburyport. His father established himself in Newburyport as a merchant dealing in imported English goods.
He received his education at Dummer Academy.
Edward Sprague Rand went to work in the store of his father.
When he was eighteen he went to sea as a supercargo, and before he was twenty-one he had taken up his residence at Amsterdam as a merchant, remaining there several years, and returning home by way of the Canary Islands. He then made a voyage to Russia, but the ship on which he was returning in 1810 was wrecked on the coast of Norway. This necessitated his spending the winter there and led to his being given up as lost. On returning from Norway he was forced by commercial conditions to restrict his activities, but with the coming of peace and the economic revival it brought he became prominent in commerce and finance. He started business as an East India merchant and general freighter, but he apparently saw the opportunities afforded by the application of machinery to manufacturing and by the growing practice of financing business ventures by selling shares to the public, for he took a leading part in promoting enterprises involving these things.
In 1816 he was identified with a project for building a canal, in 1825 he was connected with a hosiery manufactory, and from 1825 to 1827 he was president of the Mechanics' Bank of Newburyport.
In 1821, in association with several others, he purchased a woolen mill, and for many years he was the president and chief figure in its management.
From 1813 to 1815 he was selectman of Newburyport. In 1815, 1816, and 1819 he was elected to the lower branch of the Massachusetts legislature, and in 1822 he was a member of its Senate. After this his increasing responsibilities apparently prevented his holding political office, but he was still prominent in exerting his personal influence in the support of policies in which he believed, as is shown by a letter to Daniel Webster dated April 8, 1850, in which Rand and several others congratulate Webster on his stand on the Union.
The letter, together with Webster's reply, was printed for public circulation.
Rand's greatest prominence came as a woolen manufacturer. Under his direction the factory developed into the Salisbury Mills, one of the conspicuous industrial plants in New England in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, and he became a recognized leader in industry and finance. He was also active in public affairs.
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Rand was married on April 6, 1807, to Hannah Pettingill, by whom he had two daughters and a son. The house in which they lived, which his wife inherited from her father, became the property of the city, and because of its age and prominence in Colonial days, was preserved as a historical exhibit.
