The telegraph in American and Morse memorial (1886)
Reid, James D · New York, Printed for the author by J. Polhemus · leaf 836
raph Company, Central Division, and, in 1881, became superintendent ofthe Wabash Railroad Telegraph system. This road at that time had a trackmileage of 3,835 miles, a pole mileage of 5,000, 727 offices and 958 employees.This great system had been made up of a number of branch railroads just… … Charles Selden. During the great strike, when special effort was made to arouse the Gould lines, as they were called, to revolt, only seven men left their posts, and ofthese seven, four were absolutely forced out by intimidation. Upon leaving therailroad, Mr. Selden was presented by his employees…
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 · Telegraph
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