Vauclain, Samuel M. (Samuel Matthews), 1856-1940
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found: His Optimism, 1924:t.p. (Samuel M. Vauclain)
found: OCLC data base, 6/8/88(hdg.: Vauclain, Samuel Matthews, 1856-1944)
found: G. A. Crimmins, Vauclain: a history of the Vauclain family in France and America, 2011:p. 359-400 (Samuel Matthews Vauclain; born May 18, 1856 at Port Richmond, Philadelphia; died at home at Rosemont, Pa., February 4, 1940; lived at Altoona, Pa., 1856-83; joined the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. as a machinist's apprentice at the Altoona Machine Shops, 1873; hired away from the Pennsylvania Railroad by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, July 1, 1883; made a partner, 1896; vice president, 1917; president, 1919; board chairman, 1929-1940; moved from Philadelphia to a country estate, "Broadlawn," in Rosemont in 1904)
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