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Alfred E. Hunt
1855Mar, 31

Alfred E. Hunt

Alfred E. Hunt, American businessman (d. 1899)
Alfred Ephraim Hunt was a 19th-century American metallurgist and industrialist best known for founding the company that would eventually become Alcoa, the world's largest producer and distributor of aluminum.

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