Paul Shoup
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Paul Shoup in Los Altos circa 1920
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Paul Shoup January 8, 1874 San Bernardino, California |
| Died |
July 30, 1946 (aged 72) Los Angeles, California |
| Resting place |
Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California Latitude: 37.39830, Longitude: -122.12750 |
| Residence | Los Altos, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | San Bernardino High School graduate 1891 |
| Occupation | Railroad Executive |
| Employer | Southern Pacific Railroad |
| Known for | Southern Pacific Railroad Executive, Founder of Los Altos,Stanford University Trustee |
| Salary | $90,000 per year before promotion to Vice-Chairman in 1932($NaN as of 2017) |
| Title | Vice-Chairman |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Rose Wilson Shoup |
| Children | Carl Sumner, Jack Wilson, and Louise |
| Parent(s) | Timothy and Sarah Sumner Shoup |
| Relatives | Siblings: Twins Carl and Guy Shoup, Brother Fred, Sister Faith |
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Paul Shoup (January 8, 1874 – July 30, 1946) was an American businessman, president and later vice-chairman of the Southern Pacific Railroad in the 1920s and 1930s, a founding board member of the Stanford University School of Business, and founder of the community of Los Altos, California.
He was the third of five children of Timothy and Sarah Sumner Shoup. His siblings included two older twin brothers, Carl and Guy, a younger brother, Fred, and a younger sister, Faith. Paul’s father was a well-respected attorney in San Bernardino who relocated the family from Iowa in 1872. After Timothy’s death in 1877, Sarah moved back to Iowa with her children. Carl died in 1898 while still in his early 20s. Guy and Fred joined Paul in careers with Southern Pacific, with Guy becoming an influential company attorney and Fred working for the Pacific Electric Railway Company in Los Angeles. Paul married Rose Wilson in 1900 in San Francisco and eventually settled in Los Altos with their three children – Carl Sumner Shoup, Jack Wilson Shoup, and Louise Shoup. Son Carl went on to become an economist, responsible for drafting the post-World War II Japanese tax structure, forming the modern Value Added Tax; he also taught economics as a professor at Columbia University. Brother Guy became a business partner with Paul in various Los Altos-focused businesses.
While he wrote for various magazines during his early life, as a contributing writer to the New York Sun, Overland Monthly, Black Cat, Illustrated Monthly, and Sunset Magazine, he turned from it after high school to start a career in the railroad industry by becoming a clerk in the mechanical department of the Santa Fe Railroad in San Bernardino. This job was short lived, as he moved to the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1891 as a ticket clerk in San Bernardino. While there, he began his training in managing a railroad. In between shifts, he tutored individuals in mathematics, and learned telegraphy and stenography, and he continued to write, submitting short pieces to eastern magazines.
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