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  2. Timeline of North American telegraphy - Wikipedia

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    The first telegraph office November 14, 1845 report in New York Herald on telegraph lines coming into operation. 1 April 1845: First public telegraph office opens in Washington, D.C., under the control of the Postmaster-General. [4] The public now had to pay for messages, which were no longer free. [5]

  3. Indiana City, Indiana - Wikipedia

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    Indiana City was one of a handful of early contenders to be a port city on southern Lake Michigan, alongside Chicago, City West, and Michigan City. Plats for the town were drawn up in 1836 or 1837, but it was never built. [1] Like City West to its east, the Indiana City project was doomed by the panic of 1837. [2]

  4. Telegraphy in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Tarr, Joel A., Thomas Finholt, and David Goodman. "The city and the telegraph: urban telecommunications in the pre-telephone era." Journal of Urban History 14.1 (1987): 38–80. Thompson, Robert Luther. Wiring a Continent: The History of the Telegraph Industry in the United States, 1832-1866 (1947) ends in 1866; emphasis on Western Union online

  5. Elizabeth City, Indiana - Wikipedia

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    When a post office was established in 1878, it was discovered that there was another post office called Elizabeth City in Indiana, and so the name Maple Valley was selected in order to avoid repetition. [2] The first post master was A. F. Yetter. [4] The Maple Valley post office was discontinued in 1903. [2]

  6. Albert Brown Chandler - Wikipedia

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    Albert Brown Chandler (August 20, 1840 – February 23, 1923) was an American corporate executive. He was notable for his association with Abraham Lincoln during Chandler's service as a War Department telegraph operator during the American Civil War, and his later work as president of the Postal Telegraph Company.

  7. John B. Yale - Wikipedia

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    An 1875 illustration of Broadway in Manhattan, where Yale's Bankers and Merchants Telegraph Co.'s office is visible on the left next to the Western Union Telegraph Building. John Brooks Yale (1845 – 1904) was an American telegraph and railroad entrepreneur, treasurer of the Yale Lock Company.

  8. List of defunct newspapers of Hartford City, Indiana - Wikipedia

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    Hartford City's current (2009) News-Times is a descendant of the entity created by the merger of the Hartford City News and the Times-Gazette. [1] Hartford City Times (1852) First newspaper in Blackford County. [2] Blackford County News (1852–1859) [3] Register (1856) [4] Blackford County Democrat (1857–1861) [5] Hartford City Union (1861 ...

  9. Jesse H. Bunnell - Wikipedia

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    In 1878, Jesse created his own company, J. H. Bunnell and Co. Jesse constantly developed telegraphic instruments. In 1868 he received a patent for telegraph repeater, [4] printing telegraph, [5] created different telegraph sounders [6] and improved telegraph switchboard. [2] [7] He is famous for his steel lever key, which was patented on 15 ...

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