Account books of Henry Disston & Sons, Inc. and subsidiary firms, 1824-1918 {bulk, 1867-1907].

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Account books of Henry Disston & Sons, Inc. and subsidiary firms, 1824-1918 {bulk, 1867-1907].

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The records consist of a random collection of company account books formerly preserved by members of the Disston family. There are accounts for three subsidiary companies: the Tacony Fuel Gas Company, the Henry Disston & Sons File Company, Limited, and the Henry Disston & Sons Iron & Steel Works, and an insurance ledger from the Estate of Henry Disston.

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Disston, Henry, 1819-1878

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Henry Disston & Sons, Inc. (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Henry Disston & Sons, Inc. was a major manufacturer of saws and other woodworking tools and one of the largest industrial firms in Philadelphia. Henry Disston, the founder of the firm, was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, in 1819 and emigrated with his father to Philadelphia in 1833. His father died soon after, and Henry was apprenticed to Lindley, Johnson & Whitcraft, saw manufacturers. The firm failed in the depression in 1840, and young Disston took the to...