biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1819–87)
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| biography:
| Stagecoach operator and financier, born in Carlisle Co, Kentucky, USA. He moved to Missouri and operated a store and hotel. He furnished supplies for the US Army during the Mexican War, and bought oxen and wagons for bargain prices at the end of that conflict. He entered into trade with Salt Lake City and California, and bought the Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express for $100 000. He reorganized these stagecoach operations and held the mail contracts, but his business suffered from Indian uprisings (1864–5) and he sold it to Wells Fargo and Co (1866). He entered into steamship and railroad companies, but was devastated by the Panic of 1873 and retired in 1876. Two of his daughters married titled Europeans. |
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