Talk:Daniel McCallum

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Autobiography of Daniel McCallum

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This work has just been removed from the listing, see here, claiming "wrong Daniel McCallum." After checking up on this, this indeed seems to be right, because this story starts with

"I was born in Glasgow, in the month of October, 1823. My father died while I was yet a child, being only a few weeks old, leaving my widowed mother and a sister about four years of age in very poor circumstances, having no other means of support but what she could earn by sewing what was called veining webs. And so ill was it to sew, and so low was the pay, that oftentimes she had to sit up all night to complete her week's work, which, when done, would only bring her about eighteenpence, three farthings per yard being allowed in those days for veining. Any other employment for women was very difficult to get, so that, through such constant sitting, very difficult to get, so that, through such constant sitting and getting but very little food — as for luxuries, that was out of the question - in a very short time she began to feel her health declining. She then commenced to look out for something else to do. At length, by much waiting on, she obtained what they called a turn in the warehouse, receiving sometimes from a sixpence to a shilling's worth of yarn to wind on bobbins, which enabled her to earn about double what she could earn at the..." [p. 7]

It is clear this text doesn't concern the "McCallum was born in Johnstone in the council area of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland in 1815." More information about this other Daniel McCallum, and/or this autobiography are not (yet) available. -- Mdd (talk) 18:30, 8 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Daniel McCallum (21 January 1815 – 27 December 1878) was a Scottish-born American railroad engineer, general manager of the New York and Erie Railroad, and a brevet major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is known as one of the early pioneers of management; in 1855, he designed an illustrative organization chart of the New York and Erie Railroad, considered to be the first modern organizational chart. It provides a plan of the organization, showing the division of administrative responsibilities and the number and class of employees engaged in each department.

Photograph credit: Brady National Photographic Art Gallery; restored by Adam Cuerden

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