After the American Civil War, Disston returned to work in his father's factory as an executive.

During the 1870s, Hamilton Disston of Philadelphia took an interest in developing the region while on fishing trips with Henry Shelton Sanford, founder of the city of Sanford.

Hamilton Disston was born in Philadelphia, the eldest son of nine children born to Mary Steelman and Henry Disston, an English immigrant and descendant of French nobility.

Court orders related to the debt threatened to derail the contract so Governor William D. Bloxham visited Disston in Philadelphia to persuade him to relieve the debt.

Disston himself continued living in Disston City until more bad fortune prompted his return to Philadelphia.

On April 30, 1896, Disston had dinner with the mayor of Philadelphia and attended a theatre production with his wife in Philadelphia.

* Hamilton Disston School in Philadelphia.

* Disston Street in Philadelphia, PA

A Place to Live and Work: The Henry Disston Saw Works and the Tacony Community of Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania State University Press.

Although some claim that Disston committed suicide in his bathtub with a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, almost every obituary, as well as the official coroner's report, stated that he died of heart disease in bed.

Henry Flagler's railroad reached a settlement of a little more than 500 people named Miami the year Disston died.

* August 23 – Hamilton Disston, American land developer ( d. 1896 )

Hamilton Disston ( August 23, 1844 – April 30, 1896 ), was an industrialist and real-estate developer who purchased four million acres ( 16, 000 km² ) of Florida land in 1881, an area larger than the state of Connecticut, and reportedly the most land ever purchased by a single person in world history.

The IIF found a Pennsylvania real estate developer named Hamilton Disston interested in implementing plans to drain the land for agriculture.

Disston purchased of land for $ 1 million in 1881, and he began constructing canals near St.

Disston contracted with the Florida Internal Improvement Fund, then in receivership, to pay $ 1 million to offset its Civil War and Reconstruction debt.

In exchange, Disston would be awarded half the land he drained from the state's swamps.

Dunne was a legal council involved in the Disston Land Purchase, and as his commission, received 100, 000 choice acres ( 400 km2 ) of land out of the 4, 000, 000 acre ( 16, 000 km² ) purchase.

The following year on February 15, while surveying the Disston Purchase, Dunne selected the city's location and began settling it.

The town was originally named Disston City in 1884 when Hamilton Disston purchased land here.

Hamilton Disston, the largest landowner in the United States, began and lost his Disston City development, later renamed Gulfport.

It completely surrounds the borough of Lititz and contains the following villages: Brunnerville, Disston, Kissel Hill, Lexington, Millway, and Rothsville.

Disston Co. agreed to supply Ripley the blades on condition they were not held liable.

The first official U. S. trench knife adopted for service issue was the U. S. M1917 trench knife designed by Henry Disston & Sons, and based on examples of trench knives then in service with the French Army.

The most famous of these factories was the Disston Saw Works in Tacony, founded by English industrialist Henry Disston, whose saw blades were world-renowned.

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.

The tour returned to grand receptions in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

When Kling returned the next year, the Cubs won the pennant again, but lost to the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1910 World Series.

Her father, unable to bear the grief of his loss, and feeling adrift in a foreign country, returned to his native France for 16 years, with only one visit back to Philadelphia.

Back in the United States, Lynch returned to Virginia, but since his parents had moved to Walnut Creek, California, he was forced to stay with his friend Tony Keeler for a while, before he decided to move to the city of Philadelphia, where, at the advice of Jack Fisk, who was already attending it, he decided to enroll at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, something he preferred far more than his previous art college in Boston, claiming that " In Philadelphia there were great and serious painters, and everybody was inspiring one another and it was a beautiful time there.

The competition with Philadelphia has been particularly intense since the late 1970s, when the long-moribund Eagles returned to contention.

Cotten returned to Broadway in 1939, creating the role of C. K. Dexter Haven opposite Katharine Hepburn's Tracy Lord in the original production of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story.

Audubon returned to Philadelphia in 1824 to seek a publisher for his bird drawings.

With the Giants trying to secure a win against the Philadelphia Eagles, they chose to call a running play — which resulted in a fumble that was returned for a game-winning touchdown by the Eagles ' Herman Edwards.

In 2001 the band came to the US for major press, radio and TV appearances for the Bastard Life or Clarity release and returned Stubbs in Austin, Texas to kick off a sold out US tour with dates in Austin, Boulder, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City and the last show at the famous Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

The 2005 season saw LaDainian Tomlinson's 18-game touchdown scoring streak end as Kaeding had a field goal blocked and returned for a touchdown in a 20 – 17 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on the road.

In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then immediately returned to Maryland to rescue her family.

After apprenticing with Louis Kahn in Philadelphia, Safdie returned to Montreal to oversee the master plan for Expo 67.

Only two teams, Memphis and Philadelphia, returned with the same ownership from the prior season.

Mark Messier had returned to New York, Theoren Fleury joined the Rangers after spending most of his career with the Calgary Flames, and Eric Lindros was traded to the Rangers from the Philadelphia Flyers.

The NBA thus returned to Philadelphia one year after the Warriors had left for San Francisco.

In 1988 – 89, Philadelphia returned to the playoffs after a one-year absence, but were swept in the first round by the New York Knicks.

Edmonton returned to the Stanley Cup Final and faced the same opponent as they had in 1985, the Philadelphia Flyers.

In September, 1851, the grand jury returned a " true bill " ( indictment ) against 38 individuals who were then held in Moyamensing Prison in Philadelphia to await trial.

From 1921 through 1923, the tournament was played at the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia and it returned to Forest Hills in 1924.

Dallas returned to Philadelphia, and lived in Philadelphia until he death in 1864, at the age of 72.

In the premiere episode, Tibbs, a Philadelphia police department detective, has returned to his childhood home ( the fictionalized Sparta, Mississippi ) for his mother's funeral.

The successful buyer was the large oil refiner and petrochemical company, Sunoco, Inc. of Philadelphia, PA. A retrofit was completed and the facility returned to production of biofuels.