Background
Herreshoff, Nathanael Greene was born in 1848 in Bristol, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Charles Frederick and Julia Ann (Lewis) Herreshoff.
Herreshoff, Nathanael Greene was born in 1848 in Bristol, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Charles Frederick and Julia Ann (Lewis) Herreshoff.
Educational public schools, Bristol, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1866-1869. Special technical education in engineering. (Sc.M., Brown University, 1896).
Designer of many yachts and torpedo boats built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, of which was superintendent, 1881-1915, president, 1915-1924 (retired). Home: Bristol, Rhode Island
Married Clara A. DeWolf, December 26, 1883 (died 1905). Married second, Ann Roebuck, October 7, 1915. Children: Agnes Muller, Algernon Sidney DeWolf, Nathanael G. (deceased), Alexander Griswold, Lewis Francis, Clarence DeWolf.