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American businessman (–)

Charles Ranlett Flint (January 24, – February 26, ) was the founder of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company which later became IBM.

For his financial dealings, he earned the moniker "Father of Trusts".^[1][2] He was an avid sportsman and member of the syndicate that built the yacht Vigilant, that was the U.S. defender of the eighth America's Cup and was the owner of the yacht Gracie.^[3][4]

Early life and education

Flint was born on January 24, , in Thomaston, Maine.^[5] His father, Benjamin Chapman, had changed the family name to Flint after being adopted by an uncle on his mother's side.

The family moved from Maine to New York City where his father ran the family's mercantile firm Chapman & Flint, which had been founded in ^[6] Flint married the composer Kate Simmons in ^[7]

In , Charles Flint graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, which