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Hamilton Disston (August 23, – April 30, ) was an American industrialist and real-estate developer who purchased 4 million acres (16, km²) of Florida land in , an area larger than the state of Connecticut, and reportedly the most land ever purchased by a single person in world history.
Hamilton disston biography article
In , Hamilton Disston made what may have been the most lopsided land deal since the U.S. got the vast wastelands of Alaska for a song and then found oil there.
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Hamilton Disston, a wealthy Philadelphian, came to Florida in , and is credited with saving the state, which had low coffers from railroad investments.
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Hamilton Disston (August 23, – April 30, ),[1] was an industrialist and real-estate developer who purchased four million acres (16, km²) of Florida land in , an area .