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    Robert Chesebrough

    American chemist (1837–1933)

    Robert Chesebrough

    Born

    Robert Augustus Chesebrough


    (1837-01-09)January 9, 1837

    London, England

    DiedSeptember 8, 1933(1933-09-08) (aged 96)

    Spring Lake, New Jersey, U.S.

    Known forPetroleum jelly
    Spouse

    Margaret McCredy

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    (m. ; died )​
    Children4

    Robert Augustus Chesebrough (;[1] January 9, 1837 – September 8, 1933) was an American chemist who discovered petroleum jelly—which he marketed as Vaseline—and founder of the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company.

    Life and career

    Born in London, England, to American parents on January 9, 1837, Chesebrough was raised in New York City.[2] He married Margaret McCredy on April 28, 1864, and they had four children.[2]

    Chesebrough began his career as a chemist clarifying lamp oil from sperm oil, a waxy oil found in the heads of sperm whale