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Albert Augustus Pope
American manufacturer
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- Born:
- May 20, 1843, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Died:
- August 10, 1909, Cohasset, Massachusetts (aged 66)
Albert Augustus Pope (born May 20, 1843, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 10, 1909, Cohasset, Massachusetts) was an American manufacturer.
Pope served in the Civil War and subsequently made a fortune in a Boston shoe-supply business. In 1877 he founded a successful bicycle factory in Hartford, Connecticut. In the 1890s he began producing gasoline automobiles and electric automobiles in Hartford, Indianapolis, and Toledo, Ohio.