High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nye Lubricants, Inc. traces its origins back to 1844 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. As the whaling industry's epicenter, New Bedford proved a hot spot to start an oil and lubricant company.In 1840, William Foster Nye, barely 16 years old, left his family's Cape Cod farm to carve his niche in the world of commerce. Before his death 70 years later, he would create a line of lubricating oils sought around the globe – and a company that still bears his name today. Apprentice to a master carpenter, Nye began his long career in New Bedford, Massachusetts. But he had a wanderlust to quench before settling into what would eventually become a lifelong pursuit. He left New Bedford to build organs in Boston, took to sea as a ship's carpenter, worked at an ice house in Calcutta and went to California for the Gold Rush, where he built a profitable business as a stair builder after the San Francisco fire. He returned to New Bedford to start an oil and kerosene business, and then left to serve in the Union Army as a sutler, a traveling merchant – the first to set up shop in Richmond after the defeat of the Confederate Army.

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