The Spirit of Swiftwater: 100 Years at the Pocono Labs Hardcover - 1998

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In the early 1890s, an American with Canadian ancestry fled Brooklyn, N.Y., for the clean air of Pennsylvania to recuperate from cholera. There, at the Swiftwater Inn, Dr. Richard Slee met and married the innkeeper's daughter and settled on land across Route 611 to claim his fortune. His timing was perfect. In 1897, expansionism swept America. Eastman, Rockefeller, Edison, and Ford ruled the Industrial Revolution. It was a time of Manifest Destiny, and Dr. and Ella Slee embraced it whole heartedly. The Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania were rural then, sporting a few resorts and dry goods stores, having little published contact with the world. Dr. Slee would change that. Just as entrepreneurs had started to conquer the land, Louis Pasteur and others had begun to conquer disease. While the vaccine industry was in its infancy, it had shown remarkable success in protecting people from smallpox. Now a part of Pasteur Merieux Connaught, the largest distributor of human vaccine in the world, Swiftwater is sourcing and distributing its products across the planet. "The Spirit of Swiftwater: 100 Years at the Pocono Labs" is a study in human character, a saga of more than a thousand people who, despite the odds, have shown a remarkable ability to thrive.