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Western Union Telegraph Co., Extension Stock - Collins Overland Line, 1964 Issued Stock Certificate

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Western Union Telegraph Co., Extension Stock - Collins Overland Line, 1964 Issued Stock Certificate
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New York. 1 Share of Extension Stock I/U Certificate, Collins Overland Line, Via Behring's Strait, Black print on black border, Ornate title at top with globe at top and 25 cent revenue stamp at bottom, VF-XF condition with small stain at top right corner. Signed by Hiram Sibley -One of the company's founders. Sage Sons & Co. In 1851, the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company was organized in Rochester, New York by Samuel L. Selden, Hiram Sibley, and others, with the goal of creating one great telegraph system with unified and efficient operations. Meanwhile, Ezra Cornell had bought back one of his bankrupt companies and renamed it the New York & Western Union Telegraph Company. Originally fierce competitors, by 1856 both groups were finally convinced that consolidation was their only alternative for progress. The merged company was named the Western Union Telegraph Company at Cornell's insistence, and Western Union was born. Western Union bought out smaller companies rapidly, and by 1860 its lines reached from the East Coast to the Mississippi River, and from the Great Lakes to the Ohio River. In 1861 it opened the first transcontinental telegraph. In 1865 it formed the RussianÐAmerican Telegraph in an attempt to link America to Europe, via Alaska, into Siberia, to Moscow (This project was abandoned in 1867). It introduced the first stock ticker in 1866, and a standardized time service in 1870. The next year, 1871, the company introduced its money transfer service, based on its extensive telegraph network. In 1879, Western Union left the telephone business, settling a patent lawsuit with Bell Telephone Company. As the telephone replaced the telegraph, money transfer would become its primary business.