page_title: Nathaniel Hayward
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Nathaniel Hayward / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Hayward House, aka Dudley Wright-Dr. Watrous-Nathaniel Hayward House, 35 Hayward Avenue, Colchester, Connecticut Also part of w:Colchester Village Historic District This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 72001325
context_page_description: Nathaniel Manley Hayward was a US businessman and inventor best known for developing the process of vulcanization and for his collaboration with Charles Goodyear.
context_section_description: Nathaniel Hayward was born in Easton, Massachusetts on January 19, 1808.
  Hayward met Goodyear in 1837 and shared with him the discovery he had made, almost accidentally, while working at a rubber factory in Roxbury, Connecticut. He bought some mills in Stoneham, Massachusetts, from Elisha S. Converse, which later became a small settlement called Haywardville.
  He died in Colchester, Connecticut on July 18, 1865.
  Hayward's former home in Colchester has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1972.
caption: Nathaniel Hayward's House in Colchester, CT, now on the National Register of Historic Places
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