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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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Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, resident. Lexington, Kentucky native. Married to Emma Marsh Shaw. Father of Catherine Shaw, Hiram Shaw, Emma Shaw, Julia Shaw, Annie Shaw and Margaret Shaw. Resident of Lexington, Fayette County in 1840.
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, clerk. Lexington, Kentucky native. Son of Nathaniel Shaw and Emma Marsh Shaw. Clerk in Lexington, Fayette County in 1860.
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Montgomery County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Kate Kerr Cluke. Father of Roy Cluke. Appointed to serve as colonel in the 8th Regiment Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A.) on September 10, 1862. Prisoner of war at McLean Barracks, Cincinnati, Ohio, from July 26, 1863, to August 31, 1863. Prisoner of war at Johnson's Island from October 21, 1863, to January 1, 1864. Died at Johnson's Island, on January 1, 1864.
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Fayette County, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer and soldier. Huntsville, Alabama, native. Son of Calvin Morgan and Henrietta Hunt Morgan. Married to Rebecca Bruce Morgan on November 21, 1848. Married to Martha O. Ready Morgan on December 14, 1862. Father of Johnnie Hunt Morgan. Attended Transylvania University in Lexington from 1842 to 1844. Served in the Kentucky Mounted Volunteers as first lieutenant in the U.S.-Mexican War from 1846 to 1847. Member of the Masonic Order at Daviess Lodge #22 in Lexington from 1846 to 1864. Manufacturer in Lexington in 1850. Served in a state militia artillery company in Lexington as captain from 1852 to 1854. Served in the Lexington Rifles of the Kentucky State Guard as captain from 1857 to 1861. Manufacturer in Lexington in 1860. With C. C. Morgan, owned thirty enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Employed one enslaved person in Lexington in 1860. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as colonel and brigadier general from 1861 to 1864. Killed at Greeneville, Tennessee, on September 4, 1864.
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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 Fayette County, Kentucky.
County in Kentucky. Seat at Winchester. Located on the Kentucky River.
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.
To Gov J RF Robinson
By Telegraph from
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