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NATHAN H. VAN FOSSEN, assistant general inspector National Tube-works company, McKeesport, is a native of Harrisburg, Pa. He was educated in the common schools and Cumberland Valley Institute, Mechanicsburg, Pa. He then learned telegraphy, and was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad company at its offices at Harrisburg and vicinity for three years. In 1867 he entered the employ of the Norway Iron & Tack company at Wheeling, W. Va., as clerk, and soon after was promoted to assist ant superintendent, and later to superintendent of the tack department, which position he held for five years. The works changing hands, he was appointed superintendent by the new firm, and occupied that position four years, then engaged in the oil business, and in 1876 settled in McKeesport, where he became manager of the offices of the Western Union Telegraph company, which position he still holds. Since 1878 he has also been in the employ of the National Tube-works company, in various capacities, and in March, 1888, was appointed assistant general inspector of their works. He is a member of the Episcopal Church; politically, a republican.