Henry Disston's arrival in the United States has been portrayed as if it were the starting point of a Horatio Alger story. Therefore it seems fitting to use it as a juncture from which to begin a blog that looks into topics related to the Disston and Sons company, but are not widely known.
By 1919, the centennial of Henry Disston's birth, only one of Disston's sons, Jacob, was alive. He had never worked for his father, being only 15 years old and a student when Henry died in 1878. The generation of men who worked directly under the Disston and Sons founder had long been dying off, so it became the project of one of his grandsons, a nephew, and a cousin to assemble a family history, which was published as a typed manuscript in 1920.
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