Arthur Van Vlissingen Jr. (November 22, 1894 - October 20, 1986) was an American writer and bureau chief for '' Business Week'' and ''

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,'' noted as editor of the ''Factory and Industrial Management'' journal."Writer Arthur Van Vlissingen : Headed Bureau For Newsweek." in ''Chicago Tribune,'' October 22, 1986.

Life and work

Van Vlissingen was born in Chicago to Arthur H. Van Vlissingen, who was a prominent developer and commercial real estate broker in Chicago. After obtaining an engineering degree at the

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, and joined the US Navy to serve in

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. After graduation he joined the

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as Assistant editor and later editor for the '' Factory and Industrial Management'' journal. He continued to edited the magazine in the 1930s when it was renamed ''Factory Management and Maintenance.'' In 1927 Van Vlissingen published "The Yankee of the Yards: The Biography of

Gustavus Franklin Swift Gustavus Franklin Swift, Sr. (June 24, 1839 – March 29, 1903) was an American business executive. He founded a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during the late 19th century, over which he presided until his death. He is credited with t ...

," co-authored with Louis Franklin Swift. This work provides a history of Chicago's meat packing industry from the viewpoint of the son of the founder of the largest packing company in the world. Chandler, Alfred D. "The beginnings of "big business" in American industry." ''Business History Review'' 33.01 (1959): 1-31. In the 1930s he joined '' Business Week,'' where he became bureau chief in the Midwest. He later joined

, where he headed its bureau. In the 1960s he co-authored some more works on the history of postal offices in the 19th century.

Selected publications

* Dunlap, John R., Arthur Van Vlissingen and

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(eds.). ''Factory and industrial management,'' New York, The Engineering Magazine Co., 1928-1929 * Swift, Louis Franklin, Arthur Van Vlissingen. ''Yankee of the Yards: The Biography of Gustavus Franklin Swift. A.W. Shaw and Company, Chicago, Illinois .'' (1927). * Richow, Harold E., Ray Van Handel, and Arthur Van Vlissingen. ''The Territorial Post Offices of Wisconsin: Their Covers and Postmarks, July 4, 1836-May 29, 1848: Including Those which Were in the Michigan Territory, October 6, 1821-July 3, 1836.'' Wisconsin Postal History Society, 1963. * Van Vlissingen, Arthur, and Morrison Waud. ''New York Foreign Mail Cancellations, 1870-1876.'' Collectors Club of Chicago, 1968. Articles, a selection: * Van Vlissingen, Arthur. "The BIG Idea behind Those SMALL Plants of Ford's." ''Factory Management and Maintenance'' 96: 46. * Arthur Van Vlissingen, Jr., "Fred Harvey," ''Factory and Industrial Management'' 78 (Nov. 1929): 1085. 34.

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