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Henry Wells was born in 1805 in Thetford, Vermont, the son of Dorothea "Dorothy" (Randall) and Shipley Wells, a Presbyterian minister at what is now the First Presbyterian Church of Seneca Falls, New York who moved his family to central New York State in the westward migration of Yankees out of New England. [2]
In 1852, Henry Wells and William Fargo created Wells Fargo & Co. when Butterfield (and other directors of American Express) objected to the extension of its operations to California. The original Wells Fargo & Co. was created to facilitate an express business between New York and San Francisco by way of the Isthmus of Panama and the Pacific ...
Henry Wells was born in Rochester, New York and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Romeo Academy, then read law with Theodore Romeyn. In 1848 Wells married Millicent Hunt of Detroit, with whom he had a son and a daughter before she died after giving birth to that short-lived daughter in 1852.
The post Reggie Wells, Oprah’s longtime personal makeup artist, dies at 76 appeared first on TheGrio. ... Wells was one of seven children born to John Henry Wells, a bus driver, and Ada Wells, a ...
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography.
They had as children: Henry Wells Livermore (?-1959) and Russell Blake Livermore. In 1920 she was a member of the Republican National Committee and urged women to vote: You have it in your hands to win. You have new ideas, new methods in politics, and I cannot impress upon you too strongly the part you have to play in the coming campaign.
The Morgan family is an American family and banking dynasty, which became prominent in the U.S. and throughout the world in the late 19th century and early 20th century.. Members of the family amassed an immense fortune over the generations, primarily through the work of Junius Spencer (J.S.) Morgan (1813–1890) and John Pierpont (J. P.) Morgan Sr. (1837–19
This action infuriated Secretary of War Henry Dearborn, who dismissed Wells and replaced him with his rival, John Johnston. [13] In 1809, Wells married his third wife, Mary Geiger, the daughter of Colonel Frederick Geiger. [14] Together, William and Mary would have three children: Samuel Geiger Wells, Yelberton Wells, and Julia Ann Wells. [15]