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Philip A. Payton Jr.
1876–1917
United States
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Philip Anthony Payton Jr. (February 27, 1876 – August 1917) was an African-American real estate entrepreneur. He is known as the "Father of Harlem", due to his work renting properties in Harlem, New York City, to African Americans.
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