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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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Rochester, Monroe County, New York, attorney and telegraph officer. Otsego County, New York, native. Married to Elizabeth H. Gold Elwood on June 14, 1849. Father of Frank W. Elwood, Agnes R. Elwood, and Elizabeth H. Elwood. Resident of Rochester, Monroe County, New York, in 1850. Attorney in Rochester in 1860. Secretary of the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company. Treasurer and Secretary of the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1861.
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Twenty-second governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, banker, and legislator. Son of Jonathan Robinson and Jane Black Robinson. Married to Susan D. Mansell Robinson on December 26, 1821. Father of Emilie Jane Robinson and James F. Robinson, Jr. Married Willina S. Herndon Robinson on May 30, 1842. Father of Scott Herndon Robinson, John McCracken Robinson, George Sidney Robinson, Madison Johnson Robinson, Stephen Gano Robinson, Willa Ewing Robinson, Philip Eldon Robinson, and Stephen Gano Robinson. Educated at Forest Hill Academy and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Trustee of Georgetown College. President of the Farmers' Bank of Georgetown. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1851 to 1855. Owned thirty-five enslaved persons in 1860. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 3, 1861, to September 5, 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from August 16, 1861, to August 18, 1862. Governor of Kentucky from August 18, 1862, to September 1, 1863. Returned to practicing law and farming on retiring from politics in 1863.
Montgomery County, Indiana, druggist, soldier and politician. Piqua, Miami County, Ohio native. Married to Caroline Manson. Father of Laura C. Manson, Mahlon F. Manson, William N. Manson, Sallie Manson, and Mattie Manson. Served in the 5th Indiana Volunteers as captain from 1847 to 1848. Druggist in Union, Indiana in 1850. Served in the Indiana state legislature from 1851 to 1852. Druggist in Crawfordsville in 1860. Served in the 10th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as captain and colonel from May 1861. Served in the Union Army as brigadier general of volunteers from March 1862 to December 21, 1864. Unsuccessful Democratic Party candidate for lieutenant governor in Indiana in 1864.
Franklin County, Kentucky, salt maker and statesman. Kentucky native. Married to Lettitia J. Garrard. Father of Toleman Garrard, Daniel Garrard, Mittie Garrard, James L. Garrard, Lucy J. Garrard, Florence Garrard, and Ellen W. Garrard. Salt maker in Clay County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned twenty enslaved persons in Clay County in 1850. Member of the Democratic Party in 1857. Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1857 to 1865. Owned three enslaved persons in Clay County in 1860. Ran as a pro-Union candidate in 1861.
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Seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Located on Lake Erie. Located at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River.
City in Monroe County, New York. Located at the mouth of the Genesee River. Located on Lake Ontario.
Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.
Seat of Anderson County, Kentucky.
Seat of Woodford County, Kentucky.
Seat of Fayette County, Kentucky.
Seat of Scott County, Kentucky.
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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NO. 1.] TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON WHICH MESSAGES ARE RECEIVED BY THIS COMPANY 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; and while this Company will, as heretofore, use every precaution to ensure correctness, it will not be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery of repeated messages, beyond an amount exceeding five hundred times the amount paid for sending the message; nor will it be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission of unrepeated messages from whatever cause they may arise, nor for delays arising from interruptions in the working of its 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 this Company for transmission, subject to the above conditions.
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