Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Alexander Majors (October 4, 1814 – January 13, 1900) was an American businessman, who along with William Hepburn Russell and William B. Waddell founded the Pony ...
William Bradford Waddell (1807–1872) is often credited along with Alexander Majors and William Hepburn Russell as the founders, owners, and operators of the Pony Express. He is described as "phlegmatic, stoical, inclined to sulk if displeased, a cautious penny-pincher, and unable to reach a decision without ponderous deliberation." [1]
Alexander Majors, one of the founders of the Pony Express, had acquired more than 400 horses for the project. He selected horses from around the west, paying an average of $200. [ 18 ] These averaged about 14.2 hands (58 inches, 147 cm) high and 900 pounds (410 kg) [ 19 ] each; thus, the name pony was appropriate, even if not strictly correct ...
William Hepburn Russell (1812–1872) was an American businessman. He was a partner, along with Alexander Majors and William B. Waddell, in the freighting firm Russell, Majors, and Waddell and the stagecoach company the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company which was the parent company of the Pony Express.
Alexander Majors was part of the supply ships that supported the Battle of Leyte from 7 October to 26 December 1944 in the Pacific war campaign of World War II. On November 12, 1944 Alexander Majors was at anchor one mile (1.6 km) west of Dulag, Leyte in Leyte Gulf, when an Empire of Japan plane dropped an aerial bomb about 50 yards (46 m) from the ship.
Helen Marlene Major (née Oakes; December 7, 1954 – October 11, 1980), best known by her middle name and posthumously by her maiden name, [1] was an American woman who was murdered by her estranged husband, William Alexander Major, in 1980.
Notable people with the surname Majors include: Alexander Majors (1814–1900), American businessman; Bobby Majors (born 1949), American football player; Jake Majors (born 2002), American football player; Johnny Majors (1935–2020), American football player and coach; Jonathan Majors (born 1989), American actor
Pioneer Park is at Westport and Broadway, with a sculpture by Thomas L. Beard of Alexander Majors, John McCoy, and Jim Bridger. Calvin was one of the founders of the Old Settlers' Historical Society, founded in 1871. His daughter, Eleanor (Nelly) McCoy Harris was known as one of Kansas City's first historians and writers. [9] [10] [11]