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Western Union Telegraph Company, enterprise created (1851) to provide telegraphic communications services in the United States. Originally known as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company, Western Union (as it was renamed in 1856 after a series of acquisitions) built the nation's first transcontinental telegraph line in 1861. The company briefly entered the telephone field but, after losing a court battle with Bell Telephone in 1879, turned completely to telegraph communications. Western Union's telegraph business grew rapidly, reaching its height (more than 200 million telegrams) in 1929. By 1943, after acquiring Postal Telegraph and some 500 other competitors, Western Union was easily the largest company in its field. During the 1960s, faced with steeply declining telegraph revenues and rising costs, the company moved into a number of other related services, such as time-sharing computer systems, teleprinters, and satellite communications. The Western Union Corp., formed in the 1970s, eventually sold off its communications businesses and emerged in the early 1990s as the New Valley Corp., a banking services and real estate company. Another part of the original company, Western Union Financial Services, became a subsidiary of First Data Corp. in 1995 and now specializes in electronic money transfers and business communications services; it continued to transmit telegrams until 2006.

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See R. L. Thompson, Wiring a Continent (1947, repr. 1972).

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He worked for the prestigious Western Union Telegraph Company.

W. Keleher A Multifaceted Individual by Julia Keleher / Law community

From Wire to Westar Because of your professional interests, many of you are already familiar with the name of "Western Union" and the historic reputation of The Western Union Telegraph Company.

Responding to User Needs...with Services for Today and Tomorrow by Flanagan, R.M. / Communications News

1856 Name changes to The Western Union Telegraph Company, signifying the union of "western" telegraph lines with eastern lines into one system, following acquisition of a series of competing telegraph systems.

Western Union observes 125th anniversary of money transfer service by Business Wire

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