On This Day In Alabama History: A.G. Gaston Was Born

Alabama News Center | July 4, 2018 @ 5:00 am

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

July 4, 1892

A true bootstrap businessman, Arthur George Gaston rose from nothing to a $40 million business empire. Born in Demopolis on this day in 1892, Gaston moved to Birmingham as a teenager and dropped out of school after the tenth grade to go to work. After a stint in the Army in World War I, Gaston returned from Europe to found an insurance company, a funeral business, a business college, a real estate company, radio stations, and Citizens Federal Savings and Loan. He passed away in 1996, at the age of 103.

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