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...Herbert's first job was a lowly clerkship in the Bank of Hamilton when he was 17. After four years of that he left Canada, went to work as a cattle rancher for Butte Valley Land Co. in San Francisco which was partly owned by his. uncle James Horsburg Jr., then assistant general passenger agent of the Union Pacific. Several years later when the U. P. was anxious to please Sir Henri W. A. Deterding and a group of Royal Dutch officials, his uncle selected Herbert Gallagher to show them around. This he did so well that when Royal...
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