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About Hamilton Disston
Hamilton Disston was an American industrialist and real-estate developer who purchased 4 million acres (16,000 km²) of Florida land in 1881, an area larger than the state of Connecticut. Disston was the son of Pennsylvania-based industrialist Henry Disston who formed Disston & Sons Saw Works, which Hamilton later ran and which was one of the largest saw manufacturing companies in the world.
Everything about Hamilton Disston →- Occupation
- businessperson, industrialist, real estate developer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 23, 1844
- Died
- April 30, 1896