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He was a businessman who invested in stagecoach and telegraph. He was born in Conway, MA and moved to Utica in 1812 where he worked as a stage driver before moving up to own his own stage coach  business. Then in 1845, he founded the New York, Albany, Buffalo Telegraph Company which became an important commercial telegraph company that was later absorbed into the Western Union telegraph comapny. He became wealthy because of this, living in Utica NY and Massachusetts. He never married or had children.

Letter References

Letter from Clarence Armstrong Seward to William Henry Seward, July 9, 1851

Letter from Clarence Armstrong Seward to William Henry Seward, July 10, 1851

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He was a businessman who invested in stagecoach and telegraph. He was born in Conway, MA and moved to Utica in 1812 where he worked as a stage driver before moving up to own his own stage coach business. Then in 1845, he founded the New York, Albany, Buffalo Telegraph Company which became an important commercial telegraph company that was later absorbed into the Western Union telegraph comapny. He became wealthy because of this, living in Utica NY and Massachusetts. He never married or had children.
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BURIAL Forest Hill Cemetery Utica, Oneida County, New York, USA Show Map PLOT Plot 25
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Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data: Newspapers and Periodicals. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. The Digitized Content is licensed from the American Antiquarian Society ("AAS") and may not be reproduced, transferred, commercially or otherwise exploited, in whole or in part, outside the terms and conditions of this service without the express written consent of AAS. All rights reserved.