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Western Union Telegraph Building, lithograph. The Western Union Company is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Denver, Colorado.. Founded in 1851 as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company in Rochester, New York, [3] the company changed its name to the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1856 after merging with several other telegraph ...
Ezra Cornell (/ k ɔːr ˈ n ɛ l /; January 11, 1807 – December 9, 1874) was an American businessman, politician, academic, and philanthropist.He was the founder of Western Union and a co-founder of Cornell University.
The Five Americans was a 1960s American rock band, best known for their song "Western Union", [1] which reached number five in the U.S. Billboard chart and was their only single to chart in the Top 20. In Canada, they had three in the Top 20.
Western Union (schooner) Western Union Boy; Western Union splice; Wire signal This page was last edited on 4 December 2016, at 21:41 (UTC). Text is available ...
Western Union is an American financial services and communications company. Western Union may also refer to: Western Union (alliance), the alliance established by the 1948 Treaty of Brussels; Western Union, a 1941 western about the company's early days; Western Union, a 1939 historic schooner in Key West, Florida, US
The Western Union Commanders-in-Chief Committee, responsible to the Western Union Chiefs-of-Staff Committee, was created on 5 October 1948. [12] [15] The committee consisted of Western Union Commanders-in-Chief for the three military branches (Land, Naval and Air), as well as the senior officer, designated Chairman.
Western Union invented the mailgram in 1970 and registered the trademark "Mailgram". [2] Service via Westar, Western Union's own communications satellite, was introduced in 1974. The advantage of mailgrams over postal mail is speed and verifiability of transmission.
The Western Union Telegraph Building was a building at Dey Street and Broadway in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. The Western Union Building was built with ten above-ground stories rising 230 feet (70 m). The structure was originally designed by George B. Post, with alterations by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh.