Peter Demens (13 May 1850 – January 21, 1919) born Pyotr Alexeyevitch Dementyev (Russian: Пётр Алексеевич Дементьев) was a Russian immigranmt to the United States who became a raliway owner and one of the founders of the U.S. city of St. Petersburg, Florida.
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