OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.

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Washington Irving Stineman is a young man of wide business experience for his age, and has shown that he possesses business talent of a high order of merit. SAMUEL W. VAUGHEN, superintendent of the blast furnace department of the Cambria Iron company, at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is a son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth J. (Beatty) Vaughen, and was born at Marietta, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1851. His father is a native of eastern Pennsyvlania, and came to Johnstown in the year 1853. He remained there for a short time, then removed to the State of Ohio, where he remained about one year, then returned to Johnstown, and still resides there. He has been employed for many years as an engineer in charge of stationary engines at the Cambria Iron company's blast furnaces.     Samuel Vaughen, then grandfather of our subject, was of English descent, and a native of Lebanon county, Pennsylvania. He died in Johnstown in 1868, aged sixty-six years. The mother of our subject, Mrs. Elizabeth J. (Beatty) Vaughen, is a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where she was born in 1833. Her father, William Beatty, was a native of Scotland, who emigrated to America when quite young. Samuel Vaughen has had few advantages in securing his education. He attended the public schools until his thirteenth year, and since that time has been employed about the iron works. His first employment, when a lad of thirteen years, was carrying drinking water to the workmen at the blast furnaces of the Cambria Iron company at Johnstown, this county. Next, he was employed as a wiper of machinery, then as stationary engineer, in charge of the pumping engines that kept the "Old slope" mine free of

water. From the pumping-engines he was promoted to engineer on a locomotive, and employed in hauling cinder from the blast furnace to the dump. He remained in the employ of the Cambria company as a locomotive engineer until 1874, and having acquired a practical knowledge of the working of all kinds of machinery in use at a blast furnace, was then selected to go to East Conemaugh and overhaul the machinery at the old "Conemaugh furnace," and put it in running order. This he did to the satisfaction of his employers, and when the furnace was put in blast, he was given charge of the machinery and boilers. From this position he was promoted to foreman of machinery on one turn at the old blast furnace plant of the Cambria Iron company at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. This plant embraced four furnaces.     In 1876 the Cambria Iron company completed a fine new furnace, which was considered a great improvement over all previous furnaces. In honor of the year in which it was built, the centennial of American liberty, it was called "Centennial Furnace." In the fall of 1876 Mr. Vaughen was given charge of the machinery of this new furnace, and held that position for six months, and was then promoted to the position of assistant foremen of the old blast furnaces. He held this position for one year, and was again promoted, this time to be foreman of No. 5 blast furnace, then one of the largest in the world. He held this position for several years, then became general foreman of all the company's blast furnaces, six in number. His next promotion was to the position of assistant superintendent of the blast furnace department, and, finally, in 1888 he was made superintendent of the entire blast furnace department of the Cambria Iron company, and still holds that position,

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