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Benjamin Wright Raymond
	Benjamin Wright Raymond
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3rd Mayor of Chicago
	In office; 1839 – 1840
Preceded by	Buckner Stith Morris
Succeeded by	Alexander Lloyd
6th Mayor of Chicago
	In office; 1842 – 1843
Preceded by	Francis Cornwall Sherman
Succeeded by	Augustus Garrett
Born	June 15, 1801; Rome, New York
Died	April 6, 1883 (aged 81); Chicago, Illinois
Political party	Whig
Spouse(s)	Aurelia Porter
Children	George Lansing Raymond
Residence	Chicago, Illinois
Religion	Presbyterian

Benjamin Wright Raymond (June 15, 1801 - April 5, 1883^[1]; buried in Graceland Cemetery) twice served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1839-1840, 1842-1843) for the Whig Party.

During his terms as mayor, Raymond ensured that State Street would be a wide thoroughfare.^[2] He also secured the site of Fort Dearborn for the city of Chicago when it was sold by the federal government.

In 1864, approached by J.C. Adams of the Waltham Watch Company, Raymond agreed to put up the money to start a watch company in the Midwest. The men elected to build the company in Elgin, Illinois, which donated 35 acres (140,000 m²) of land to the entrepreneurs. The building was completed in 1866 and housed the Elgin Watch Company. The first model the company made was named the B.W. Raymond.

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^ "Obituary," Chicago Daily Tribune, April 6, 1883.
^ Gale, Edwin O. (1902). Reminiscences of Early Chicago and Vicinity. Chicago: Revell. pp. 384.