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sudden death of a WWI cannon camoufleur in Ohio

Above Interior view of Morgan Engineering plant (1915). Note camouflaged cannon in left foreground.

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CANNON CAMOUFLAGER SUCCUMBS SUDDENLY in Pittsburgh Press, September 11, 1919—

Lisbon OH—The body of A. W. Taylor, aged 50, who died suddenly in a hotel here yesterday, is being held in an effort to find relatives. Taylor during the war was employed at the Morgan Engineering plant at Alliance. He was a painter and camouflaged many cannon sent to the war zone. 

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