John B. Yale
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title:
John B. Yale
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John Brooks Yale was an American telegraph and railroad entrepreneur, treasurer of the Yale Lock Company. He was an early founder and secretary-treasurer of the Bankers and Merchants Telegraph Company, competing against financier Jay Gould, the robber baron of the Western Union. They operated over 400 offices, and controlled about 100,000 miles of wiring across the country, including lines of the Chicago Board of Trade and the New York Stock Exchange. Yale's company would be bankrupted by Gould'
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Telegraph and railroad entrepreneur from New York
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Yale
date created:
2024-03-03T07:22:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T07:37:58Z
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