Henry Wells
1805–78
American expressman. Established Livingstone, Wells and Pomeroy’s, a mail service operating between Albany and Buffalo, in 1843. In 1844, established Wells & Company, operating between Buffalo and Detroit with William George Fargo as messenger. In 1850, the merger of Wells & Company with two other companies created the American Express Company of which Wells and Fargo were presidents, 1850–68. The American Express Company absorbed the Pacific Union Express Company in 1868. Wells retired as president in 1873.
Source
DAB.
Bibliography
DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.
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