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Today In SCV History: April 10, 1909 – Oil Tycoon And Former Newspaper Publisher Wallace L. Hardison Killed In Train Collision

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Today in SCV History on April 10, 1909, tragedy struck near Roscoe, California (present-day Sun Valley), when Pico Canyon Oilman Wallace L. Hardison was killed.  On this day in history, Hardison, vice president of the Columbia Oil Producing Company and former owner of the Los Angeles Herald, was killed in a collision between his automobile and a Southern Pacific light ...

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