Hyrum Sibley ( February 6, 1807 - July 12, 1888 ) - American industrialist , entrepreneur , philanthropist . Sibley was born in North Adams , Massachusetts . Later moved to Rochester , New York . He became interested in the works of Samuel Morse related to the telegraph .
| Hyrum Sibley | |
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| Hiram sibley | |
| Date of Birth | February 6, 1807 |
| Place of Birth | North Adams , Massachusetts , United States |
| Date of death | July 12, 1888 (81 year) |
| Place of death | Rochester , New York , United States |
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| Occupation | industrialist , entrepreneur , philanthropist |
In 1840, Sibley, together with Morse and Erza Cornell, founded a company that provided telegraph services from Washington to Baltimore. Later, Sibley became the first president of the Western Union Telegraph Company. In 1861, Jept Wade , who founded Western Union , joined forces with Benjamin Franklin Fiklin and Hiram Sibley to create the Pacific Telegraph Company, thereby creating a single telegraph highway between the east and west coasts of the United States of America . Together with Parry Collins, he pinned his hopes on the construction of a telegraph line from Alaska to Russia through the Bering Strait on the project “ Russian-American Telegraph ”. But these hopes were not destined to come true in connection with the creation of the transatlantic telegraph line to Europe .
Sibley financed Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts, and also covered the costs of maintaining the building that housed the institute - Sibley Hall at Cornell University , located in Ithaca , New York . Sibley Hall is now part of the College of Art, Architecture, and Planning . In addition to this, Hyram Sibley sponsored the University of Rochester library.
Sibley died in 1888 and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester .
Links
- Brief Biography Hiram Sibley (English)