Information AboutHiram Sibley |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT HIRAM SIBLEY | |
| 1807 births | |
| sibley, hiram | |
| 1888 deaths | |
| american businesspeople | |
| american philanthropists | |
| cornell university buildings | |
| telecommunications history | |
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In 1840, he joined with Morse and Ezra Cornell to create a Washington to Baltimore Telegraph service. Sibley later served as first president of Western Union Telegraph Company . In 1861 , Jeptha Wade , founder of Western Union joined forces with Benjamin Franklin Ficklin and Hiram Sibley to form the Pacific Telegraph Company . With it, the final link between the east and west coast of the United States Of America was made by Telegraph . He later hoped to build a Telegraph line from Alaska to Russia through the Bering Straight , but this dream collapsed with the establishment of a cross Atlantic line to Europe . Sibley funded Sibley Hall, library for the University Of Rochester , and the Sibley College of Mechanics' Arts at Cornell University (today known as Sibley Hall, part of the Cornell University College of Art, Architecture, and Planning). His grandson Harper Sibley was also a successful businessman. ref: http://www.vintageviews.org/vv-tl/Photos/pages/sibley_h.html |
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