Henry William Dwight WELLS
1850 - American Express is founded by Henry Wells & William Fargo. (March 19)
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AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY.
CAPITAL $150,000.
The American Express Company, having purchased the several Domestic Express Lines of Wells & Co., Livingston & Fargo and Butterfield, Wasson & Co., will hereafter carry on the express business on all the several lines at the places heretofore run and occupied by said several Express Lines.
The business of said American Express Company at and between New York and Buffalo and intermediate places will be transacted in the name of "Wells, Butterfield & Co." and at and between Buffalo, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and intermediate places, west of Buffalo, in the name of "Livingston, Fargo & Co."
DIRECTORS
WM. A LIVINGSTON.....Cincinnati
WM. G. FARGO.........Buffalo
JAMES McKAY..........Buffalo
JOHN BUTTERFIELD.....Utica
JAMES D. WASSON......Albany
HENRY WELLS..........New York
JOHNSTON LIVINGSTON..New York
J.W. WETHERELL, Agent for Sandusky.
The Sandusky Register
Sandusky, Ohio
April 12, 1850

Dining Hall, Wells College - Aurora, New York Wells College in Aurora, NY is a private liberal ar
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Aurora, N.Y. from Wells College
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The Well's School, Aurora, N.Y.
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