Early Life
Wyeth was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Jacob and Elizabeth (Jarvis) Wyeth. He married Elizabeth Jarvis Stone on Jan 29, 1824.
He began his working career in the 1820s by acting as foreman for a company that harvested ice from Fresh Pond in Cambridge, and thus helping Boston's "Ice King" Frederic Tudor to establish New England's ice trade with the Caribbean, Europe, and India. He invented a number of tools that revolutionized the ice-harvesting business and increased its productivity greatly. He also invented above-ground ice houses, with double walls for insulation. As the Dictionary of American Biography states, "t was said at his death that practically every implement and device used in the ice business had been invented by Nat Wyeth."
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