Back بيير صامويل دو بونت Arabic بيير صامويل دو بونت ARZ Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours German Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours Spanish Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours Basque پیر ساموئل دو پون دو نمور Persian Pierre-Samuel du Pont de Nemours Finnish Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours French Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours Icelandic Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours Italian
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Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours | |
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| Born | Pierre Samuel du Pont 14 December 1739 Paris, France |
| Died | 7 August 1817 (aged 77) Greenville, Delaware, US |
| Spouses | Nicole-Charlotte Marie-Louise le Dée de Rencourt
(m. 1766; died 1784)Marie Françoise Robin de Poivre
(m. 1795) |
| Children | Victor Marie du Pont Eleuthère Irénée du Pont |
| Residence(s) | Chevannes, Burgundy; Nemours, France |
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (/djuːˈpɒnt, ˈdjuːpɒnt/ dew-PONT, DEW-pont,[1] French: [pjɛʁ samɥɛl dy pɔ̃ d(ə) nəmuʁ]; 14 December 1739 – 7 August 1817) was a French-American writer, economist, publisher and government official. During the French Revolution, he, his two sons and their families migrated to the United States.
His son Éleuthère Irénée du Pont was the founder of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. He was the patriarch and progenitor of one of the United States's most successful and wealthiest business dynasties of the 19th and 20th centuries.
- ^ Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster.