The telegraph in American and Morse memorial (1886)
Reid, James D · New York, Printed for the author by J. Polhemus · leaf 496
be through the State of New York from Buffalo to Pennsylvania, andalong the south side of Lake Erie to St. Louis. Under this act ofincorporation a board of directors was elected, as follows: Henry S. Potter, Joseph Hall, Joseph Medbery, Addison Gardiner, George H. Mumford, James Chapman, E. Darwin… … ^■ Qy^. ^ __ ^^^ The Western Union Telegraph Company. 465 Of course, nothing was so essential, after the glamour of organiza-tion was over, as money. Few of the parties were the possessors ofgreat wealth, even in its then restricted sense. The subscriptionswere somewhat limited, and their payment,…
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 · Telegraph
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