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Hunter Haynes

1867–1918

United States

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Hunter C. Haynes (1867 – January 1, 1918) was an American barber, entrepreneur and inventor. He was an innovator of strops to sharpen razor blades, founded a barbershop supply company, and was a film producer and film company founder. His parents had been enslaved for part of their lives.

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