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Samuel J. Murray (March 7, 1851 – August 23, 1915) was a New York printer's apprentice of humble origin, who rose to become an inventor who revolutionized the printing business, and one of the most successful businessmen of his time. At the time of his death at age sixty-five, Murray was vice president and treasurer of the United States Playing Card Company, and a director of the W. B. Oglesby Paper Company of Middletown, Ohio. His block of stock in the United States Playing Card Company was said to be worth $1,000,000. Called "a mechanical genius, the marvel and admiration of the technical and inventive world," Murray made his mark on the United States Playing Card Company by creating and installing manufacturing equipment, such as an automatic punch machine which "increased the output of cards fourfold" and reduced labor costs by sixty-six percent. With the automatic punch machine, great sheets of paper were fed into the machine and came out as complete packs of playing cards, printed in four colors.〔 The Paper Box Maker and American Bookbinder ("Ohio: Correspondence from Dayton Includes Brief Biography of the Late Samuel J. Murray" ), Volumes 23-24, 1914, p. 20〕 ==Early life== Samuel J. Murray was born in New York City on March 7, 1851. His father died when he was 12 years old. To help support his mother, two younger sisters, Catherine and Elizabeth, and younger brother, William, Murray found a job after school as a newsie delivering newspapers. His mother died when he was thirteen, leaving him to raise his younger siblings on his own.〔Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interests of Norwood, OH, "Death of a Man Who Refused a $2,000,000 Position Offered to Him," August 26, 1915〕 He was hired as a printer's devil by Victor Eugene Mojet, who was so impressed with the young Murray, that he paid for him to go to England to learn the playing card printing business at the Goodall plant in London.〔Paper, Devoted to the Manufacture, Sale and Use of Pulp and Paper, (Samuel J. Murray is dead ), Volume 16, 9/1/15, p. 28〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samuel J. Murray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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