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Disturnell was born on October 6, 1801 in Lansingburg, New York.
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Disturnell was born on October 6, 1801 in Lansingburg, New York.
Disturnell began work as a printer in Albany, New York, but the first available contemporary record of his whereabouts is in the New York Directory of 1830. From then till 1865 he appears in successive issues of the Directory as a book-dealer, and from 1865 to 1870 as librarian of the Cooper Union; he is missing from the Directories of 1870-1876, but reappears in 1877. He is in the Philadelphia Directories for the early seventies. In 1836 he published A Guide to the City of New York, and in the same year, The Traveller's Guide through the State of New York.
With the rapid development of means of transportation he became a prolific compiler of railway and steamship guides, one of the earliest being The Western Traveller; Embracing the Canal and Railroad Routes from Albany to Troy, to Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Also the Steamboat Route, from Buffalo to Detroit and Chicago (1844). For two or three decades in the middle of the century he issued, in various editions and under various titles, Disturnell's Railway, Steamship and Telegraph Book. Quick to anticipate popular demand, in 1849, he published The Emigrant's Guide to New Mexico, California, and Oregon. He gave off a constant succession of writings about any region or subject, specific or vague, in America or elsewhere, that interested him or might conceivably interest his "trade. " He published handbooks, distancetables, maps, gazetteers, and censuses too numerous to name, a bookon Springs, Waterfalls, Seabathing Resorts, and Mountain Scenery (1855), and disquisitions on the Influence of Climate in a Commercial, Social, Sanitary, and Humanizing Point of View (1860), and on Political Economy, or Interest, Usury, and Taxation (1877). From 1851 to 1877 he compiled yearly The United States National Register Containing Authentic Political and Statistical Information. In 1866 he issued Politician's Manual, The Constitution of the United States of America Together with Amendments and Proposed Amendments.
In 1876 Disturnell published New York as It Was and as It Is. As late as 1877 he was still promoting travel. He thought that Americans should be thrifty like Europeans, so that they too might patronize the centers of rest and recreation. His Summer Resorts, published in that year, deals only with the immediate vicinity of New York; it was not, he said, so full as he had meant it to be - want of time and patronage had persuaded him to issue only a part of what he had planned. He hoped, however, that in 1878 he could "continue this work to completion, hereafter furnishing the public with a complete Guide within a circuit of Fifty Miles around the City of New York. "
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Disturnell was a good salesman - not only industrious and aggressive, but comfortably at one with the opinions and desires of his environment.