The Successful American Volume 1, PT. 1 - V. 2, PT. 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ... visited Peru and other South American countries to examine oil deposits of that region, also the oil fields of California. In 1899, he accepted the position of Second Vice-President and General Manager of the Philadelphia Company, a corporation with $21,000,000 capital stock, doing more than double the business of any other company engaged in the production and sale of natural gas. Mr. McDowell is also Vice-President of the Allegheny Heating Company; President of the National Tin Plate Company, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the following companies: United States Pipe Line Co., the Tri-State Gas Co., The Wetzel Gas Co., The Chester Oil Co., The Royal Gas Co., and the Atlantic Tube Co. Mr. McDowell is a 32nd Degree Mason, being a member of the Pittsburgh Consistory, Scottish Rite; Duquesne Club; Board of Control. Pittsburgh Academy of Science and Art, and the American Society of Mining Engineers. Mr. McDowell was married, in 1876, to Caroline Hammon, of Crawford County, and thev have one son living, Horace McDowell. WILLIAM GIBSON. A RAILROAD MAN OF GRFAT EXPERIENCE AND EFFICIENCY.--GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY, PITTSBURGH, PA. AS a thoroughly equipped railway operator and an interesting contributor to the literature of this important subject, Mr. Gibson is probably best known to the general public, although his social connections are very widely extended. He was born in Scotland, in the year 1856. His father was William Gibson, an old and highly respected West India merchant, and his mother was Miss Agnes Wilson. Mr. Gibson's early training was in the Royal High School, of Edinburgh, with which institution he remained up to the time of his entrance into the University of Edinburgh. At the age of twenty he came ...