Henry Disston Monument on Millionaires' Row at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia
by Linda Stern
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Henry Disston Monument on Millionaires' Row at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia
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Linda Stern
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In an editorial upon the death of Henry Disston, the pubic Ledger of March 15, 1878, said, in part:
"He was one of the men whose works have made our city famous for the superiority of the products turned out from our workshops, foundries, factories and laboratories.
"Henry Disston was a born mechanic, in the comprehensive meaning of the term. He had the faculty of observing wherein a familiar tool or implement or machine was defective; the genius to devise the means to improve it, and the handicraft skill to do the manual work necessary to carry his own device into effect. He had other qualities quite as essential to the great mechanic; he was industrious, hopeful and persevering; confident that superiority of workmanship must win success; confident that he could turn out superior work, and resolute in the endeavor to make his tools the best of their kind. He had one other priceless quality; he was not above doing with his own hands any of the labor incident to his trade.
"Henry Disston created a new American industry. He gave to the United States the greatest saw works in the world, and founded an industrial university wherein a dozen useful trades are taught. Not only did he redeem us from all dependence on foreign countries, but turned back the tide and made them accept his products, and this simply by peaceful demonstration of superior skill in manufacturing."
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