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Owen County, Kentucky, farmer and Louisville, Kentucky, telegraph executive. New Albany, Indiana, native. Son of Joseph Green and Susan Ball Green. Married to Martha D. Green. Father of Susan T. Green, James O. Green, Pinckney F. Green, John E. Green, Warren Green, and Grace Green. Moved to Breckinridge County, Kentucky. Moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. Grocer on a flatboat on the Ohio River in 1834. Moved to Carrolton, Kentucky. Owner of a cordwood cutting business in Carrolton. Graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Louisville in Louisville in 1840. Physician of the Western Military Academy in Drennon Springs, Kentucky. Physician in Henry County, Kentucky, in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Henry County, Kentucky, in 1850 and 1851 to 1853. Commissioner of the United States directing the construction of the U.S. Custom House and U.S. Post Office in Louisville in 1853. Farmer in Owen County in 1860. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Owen County in 1860. A lessee of the United Morse and People's Telegraph between Louisville and New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1854 to 1856. Lessee of the New Orleans and Ohio Telegraph Lessees from 1856 to 1859. President of the South-western Telegraph Company in 1860.
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Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., telegraph superintendent. Ontario County, New York, native. Married to Rebecca Sprague Stager on November 14, 1847. Father of Emma L. Stager, Anna Stager, Charles Stager, and Ellen S. Stager. Printer in Rochester, New York, in 1841 under telegraph pioneer Henry O'Reilly. Telegraph operator in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1846. Telegraph clerk in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1850. Telegraph superintendent for the New York and Mississippi Valley Company in Cincinnati in 1852. Telegraph Superintendent of Western Union Telegraph Company in Cleveland in 1860. Organized the U.S. military telegraph lines under General George B. McClellan. Commissioned a captain and assistant quartermaster from November 1861. Appointed chief of the United States Military Telegraph by the Secretary of War. Promoted to colonel and aide-de-camp during the war. Breveted brigadier general and mustered out in September 1865.
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Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana, physician and special envoy. Woodford County, Kentucky, native. Married to Ella Boswell Blackburn. Graduated from the Medical Department at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky in 1835. Physician in Lexington. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1843 to 1845. Physician in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1844. Moved to Natchez, Mississippi, in 1847. Physician in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1858. Special envoy representing Governor Beriah Magoffin in New Orleans to purchase arms and ammunition in 1861. Aide-de-camp for Sterling Price in Mississippi. Appointed by Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to relocate the military casualties in the state. Traveled to Canada in August 1863, to smuggle items through the blockade into the Confederacy.
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New Orleans, Louisiana, cotton merchant and railroad executive. New York native. Father of George Norton, Clara Norton, Permellia Norton, Henrietta Norton, and Hewett Norton. Cotton merchant in New Orleans in 1850. Member of the executive committee of the New Orleans and Opelousas Railroad in 1852. Partner of Hewitt, Norton & Co., with James Hewitt and John M. Wisdom, in 1855. Member of the Louisiana Secession Convention and voted for secession. Director of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railway in New Orleans in 1861.
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Louisville, Kentucky, merchant. Indiana native. Married to Caroline Scott Throckmorton Adams on October 29, 1845. Partner in the meatpacking firm of Crutchfield, Cooper & Co. in Louisville in partnership with Edward Crutchfield and John S. Cooper in 1861. Proprietor of the Galt House hotel under the name of Silas F. Miller & Co. in Louisville partnership with Silas F. Miller in 1861. Incorporated the Union Insurance Company of Louisville in 1860. Employed at the meatpacking firm of Watkins, Hunt & Co. in Louisville in 1861.
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Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.
City in Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Located on the Mississippi River.
Louisville, Kentucky, telegraph company. Chartered by the Kentucky General Assembly on December 22, 1859. Lines stretched from Louisville to New Orleans, Louisiana. President(s): Norvin Green.
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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.
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Commission merchants. Commercial houses located in New Orleans, Louisiana; Louisville, Kentucky; New York City, New York; and Liverpool, England. Sold cotton factors. Dissolved in 1861. Partner(s): James W. Hewitt, Mortimer O. H. Norton, and John M. Wisdom.
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON WHICH MESSAGES ARE RECEIVED BY THESE COMPANIES FOR TRANSMISSION.
THE PUBLIC ARE NOTIFIED, that in order to guard against mistakes in the transmission of messages, every message of importance ought to be repeated, by being sent back from the station at which it is to be received to the station from which it is originally sent. Half the usual price for transmission will be charged for repeating the message. These Companies will not be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery of unrepeated messages, from whatever cause they may arise; nor will they be responsible for damages arising from mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery of a repeated message, beyond an amount exceeding two hundred times the amount paid for sending the message; nor will they be responsible for delays arising from interruptions in the working of their Telegraphs, nor for any mistake or omission of any other Company over whose lines a message is to be sent to reach the place of destination. All messages will hereafter be received by these Companies for transmission, subject to the above conditions. Neither of the above Companies will be liable for the responsiblities of the other.
SEND THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE, SUBJECT TO THE ABOVE CONDITIONS.
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