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"Western Union Telegraph Company" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/O00007356, (accessed June 4, 2025).

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Founded in 1856, following the consolidation of various regional telegraph companies operated by the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Company and the acquisition of Samuel Morse's telegraph patent. Created the first transcontinental telegraph service in the nation. Founder: Ezra Cornell.

Robert MacDougall, Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845-1893 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

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